132 Fossil Bones on the Coast of East Notfolk. 



Your Committee pai'ticularly recommend, as indispensably 

 necessaiy for oeconomy as well as safety, according to the opi- 

 nions of all the witnesses who were examined to this point, 

 that a professional engineer should be employed to reside con- 

 stantly at Holyhead, to superintend the machinery and inspect 

 the engine-keepers. And also that each vessel should be sup- 

 plied with an extinguishing fire-engine, and with two large 

 boats in addition to the ordinary ship's boat. 



From the great advantages which may be derived fi-om re- 

 volvmg furnaces, your Conxmittee feel anxious that a proper 

 experiment should be tried to ascertain whether they can be 

 used in place of the common fire-places. 



[The Report concludes with some suggestions relative to 

 the inanagement and fares of the steam-boats between Holy- 

 head and Dublin, as well as the Custom-house arrangements, 

 docks, roads, and Post-office regulations.] 



XXII. Fossil Botics on the Coast of East Norfolk. By 

 Mr. Richard Taylor. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal. 



Gentle:men, — JL beg to communicate an extract from some 

 geological memoranda made during an excursion a few days 

 ago along the Norfolk coast, from Cromer southward ; — my 

 object being chiefly that of pointing out the localities of an 

 extensive stratum of o^teological remains. 



Throughout the course of the cliffs which form the eastern 

 boundary of this county against the German Ocean, fi'om 

 Happisburgh to the north of Cromer, may be traced, at inter- 

 vals, along the base of the clay cliffs, a remarkable stratum 

 containing an abundance of fossil wood and the bones of large 

 herbivorous animals mineralized by iron. The thickness of 

 this singular bed does not exceed two feet, and frequently not 

 more than one. It varies in its material, from a red ferru- 

 ginous sand to an ochreous coarse gravel cemented by iron, 

 and often divided into septa by a coarse ferruginous kind of 

 crvstallization, accompanied by thin, flattened, and circular 

 cakes of very hard argillaceous red-coloured stone : others 

 are spherical, from the size of a hazel-nut to that of a hen's 

 Q^'^t and resemble the seed-vessels figured in the first volume 

 of Parkinson's Organic Remains. 



The vicinity of the stratmii which I shall pi'oceed to de- 

 scribe, is always indicated by the abundance of these stones, 

 which are washed to the base of the cliffs, and, being too hard 



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