4th, 
5th, 
6th, 
Geological Queries regardg 
correct, as Mr. Smith’s Map of the Strata shows, and I 
have always understood from other sources, the naked Chalk, 
(aud not its cover of London Clay) extends from Foxholes, 
5 to Great Driffield and beyond, SE to Thornholm, and 
ESE almost or quite to Bridlington? &c.: the Clay 
around this Gipsies Spriug, cannot be the plastic Clay above 
the upper Chalk; unless in a local Trough (which Mr. Smith 
has not shown) extending up the bottom of the vale from 
Bridlington to Foxholes?: which seems improbable, 1} 
think. i 
What is the Rock spoken of by Mr. Milne (p. 434), as 
forming the base of the Smithwick Sand Reef, 4 miles out 
at Sea, SE from Bridlington, and presenting a Cliff under 
water, towards the east? Is it the upper Chalk ?:—or, the 
Gray Wethers?:—or any of the Limestones, &c. of the 
Isle of Wight and Paris Series?. Concerning some of which 
last, so much has been fabled of late years, regarding their 
Jresh-water origin, in distinction from the Strata in ge- 
neral, which have, without sufficient proof been assumed, 
to have had a salt-water origin? 
If “ The Gipsies,” spoken of in your last Number, p. 82, 
be the Spring 103 m. WNW from Bridlington, which has 
been mentioned in the 3d Query, situated almost on the 
summit of the Wold Hills?: is it really true, that this Spring 
elis and flows, periodically? or is it eredible, that this is 
anyway connected with the Tide in Bridlington Bay ?—If 
there are other Gipsie Springs, much nearer to the Sea, and 
near to its level, to which allusion is made?; instead of that 
one near Foxholes; where are they situated, by bearings 
and distances, and the streams by which they descend to 
the Sea? 
In the case last supposed, and indeed with regard to all the 
Gipsie Springs, which have so loosely been alluded to; is 
the superficial Clay, through which the water is said to 
“ ooze” and “* weep,” around them; in reality an al/uvial 
covering, to water-worn, broken and heterogeneousGravel ? ; 
or a stratum, covering another porous and water-charged 
stratum beneath it ?: and in the latter case, which are these 
strata, in the Smithian Series ?—and whether alluvia or a 
stratum, is it clear, that the same extended and unbroken 
mass of Clay, covers the vicinities of the Gipsies and of 
Bridlington Bay Springs? 
When the above queries are satisfactorily answered ; the truth 
or otherwise, of the several ingenious hypotheses which have been 
advanced, with the view of explaining the alleged wonders of 
this 
