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beds of sandstone, shale, and clay,” more 
or Jess charged with oxyde of fron and 
carbonized vegetable matter. ‘Phe iron 
is most abundant in’ the lower part, 
where there are beds of two or three 
inches thick, of rich argillaceous iron 
ore, that were profitably ‘worked before 
the fuel of this part of the country be- 
came scaice. She middle beds of the 
cliff have much less iron, the greatest 
part consisting of very white friable 
sandstone. In the upper part of the 
series there are many large blocks of a 
grey calciferous sandstone, the surfaces 
of which exhibit a mamillated struc- 
ture: this rock may be considered as a 
variety of the chaux carbonaté quart- 
zifere of Haty, having much analogy 
with the crystallized sandstone of Fon- 
tainebleau. The mamillated appear- 
ance is very well seen at the White 
Rock, and has (though erroneously) 
been usually attributed to the action, of 
the sea upon the fallen blocks. 
The fossils in the cliffs of Hastings 
are not numerous; the shells being con- 
fincd to two or three species of small 
bivalves, and a uniyalve resembling 
that in the Petworth. marble. ‘Thin 
layers of lignite are frequent, and frag- 
ments of a very singular silicified w ood, 
of the monocoiyledon kind, the cavitics 
of which are filled with viinute trans- 
parent crystals of quartz. 
Bones of large Saurian animals, and 
of birds, also occur, though rarely; to- 
gether with scales of fish. 
‘The author observed that the grey, 
éalciferous rock has not hitherto been 
noticed in any part of the formations 
between the chalk and the Purbeck, 
except in this district: and from its not 
being co-extensiye with the rest of the 
ferruginous sand series, and the want of 
continuity and correspondence in many 
of the beds, he took occasion to remark, 
that it may be frequently more correct 
to consider “the subdivisions of some 
formations, rather as irregularly lenti- 
cular, than as tabular masses. 
June 18.—A paper was read entitled, 
“Notes on Part of the opposite Coasts 
of the English Channel, from Deal to 
sea and from Gslaes to ‘Treport ;” 
by Wm. Henry Fitton, m.p., -.c.s. 
“This paper was accompanied by a 
éontiected scries of views or elevations 
of the coast, drawn by Mr. Webster, 
from the: place where the chalk. rises 
near Calais, to where, after heing cut 
off near Blune-Nez, the chalk again ap- 
pears upon the shore near Treport ; and, 
on ‘the! English sidle, from the rise of the 
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chalk next Deal, to where it sinks at 
srighton. The author expresses _ his 
acknowledgments to the Baron Cuvier, 
through Whom he obtained permission 
from the French authorities to pass 
along the coast hy sea, and experienced 
ey ery where the greatest attention from 
ihe officers of the French cusioms. The 
paper briefly describes the leading ge- 
ological features of the coast, reciting 
the partial descriptions already pub- 
lished ; and referring, for an account of 
the cliffs near Hastings, to a memoir by 
Mr. Webster, read at the last meeting 
of the Geological Seciety, and for a 
detail of the beds which form the cliffs 
from Gries-Nez to Equitien, to an ac- 
count of the lower Boulonnois, to be 
read ata future meeting. Prom Equiben 
to the mouth of the Somme, the coast 
is altogether oceupied by dunes of sand, 
the sand-hills being im some _places,, 
especially im the Vicinity of Etaples,’ 
more than ‘one hundred feet in height. 
These’ bills are in*genetal somewhat 
crescent-shaped, the back of ‘the cres- 
céat being turned: towards ‘the ‘prevail? 
ing wind, and the-sfope'dn the lee-side 
mueb more rapid than the opposite one. 
The immediate base of the dunes seems’ 
to be peat, which is found both on the 
_ land side of them, and without, just on’ 
the verge of the sea, and in some places 
below the level of” hieh water: but no. 
rocks have yet been “discovered ia 
the coast beneath the dunes. 
EDINBURGH ANTIQUARIAN abeeane 
Dr. Hibbert lately read “séme re- 
marks, suggested by the resemblance 
which certain steinhartes (or stone-axes 
fot near the Hamber, Bear to those 
of Orkney and Shetland. He began by 
comnbiating the common: notion, that 
these aiid | similar instruments of war- 
fare are Celtic, and showed that they 
were Teutonic. Tt had been ‘doubted 
whether the -people’ who ‘used these 
weapons had ever invaded. Kugland ; 
bat it should appear from the discovery 
of these stcinbartes, in “Lincolnshire, 
that they: had’ lahded™ there. Some’ 
axes, 6f various shapes and materials! 
have been found in different parts of the’ 
world, and it “is suggested that dif: 
ferent ancient tribes had weapons, of 
shapes peculiar to their respective: 
tribes. sane 
A ‘very’ isthe Tar drawing was iesenits 
Hited to tlié Society, trom the pencil of 
Captain Jones ‘of the 29th regiment.’ 
Ft Was a sketch from an ancient oaken’ 
pannel, of the costume of an English 
bagpiper 
