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chalk mud, showing that it was deposited at an early date before 

 the large quantity of gravel and clay drift had been washed down 

 into the valley.— G.D. 



Sea temperatures at Dover for the winter 1897-98, repre- 

 sented an average for December, 1897, January and February, 

 of 46*33. The lowest on 20 February, 1898, of 43. For the 

 winter of 98-99, December, January and February, represented 

 an average of 48'33. The lowest on the 2nd of February 

 of 45. The highest sea temperatures for three years taken 

 in the month of August are remarkably the same : August, 

 i8q6 — 66; August, 1897 — ^5 ! August, 1898 — 66. 



Fogs generally occur when sea and air temperatures are 

 about the same, possibly by the warm air current being chilled 

 to temperature of sea. 



During the progress of the Harbour extension works, a fan 

 of river gravels has been encountered, covering a large portion 

 of the bottom of the Bay, in some places 1 8 feet in thickness 

 and as hard set as a turnpike road. In these gravels two 

 Mammoth's teeth have been found, one in January, 1896, and 

 another in December, 1898. — S. G. McDakin. 



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