286 Mr. R. C. Taylor on the Geology of East Not folk. 



So abundant are these animal remains on the oyster banks op- 

 posite Happisburgh, that they are frequently drawn up in nets. 



Further arguments in proof of identity and general con- 

 tinuity, — the two great facts which it was essential to establish, 

 as applied to this ibrniation and the theory of Mr. Robberds, 

 — are, it is presumed, unnecessary. The supposed course of 

 the crag formation across Norfolk and Suffolk is traced in Sec- 

 tion III. 



Some notices of the prevalence of fossil bones upon the 

 eastern coast have appeared in the Philosophical Magazine, and 

 Geological Transactions. To those enumerated might now 

 be added many subsequent discoveries. I am happy in having 

 been instrumental in attracting the attention of several ob- 

 servers to these phaenomena. Since the year 1822, many in- 

 teresting well-preserved specimens have been collected upon 

 the beach between Winterton and Cromer, where heretofore 

 they continued unregarded. It is useless to occupy these 

 pages with a detail of localities ; for in fact, traces are discerni- 

 ble at every mile. By far the greater number of specimens 

 have been derived by means of the fishermen : a circumstance 

 that confirms the opinion before given, that a considerable ac- 

 cumulation exists on some of the outer banks off this coast. 

 Viewing these scattered fragments as the relics of those 

 animals who once inhabited the surface of the upper marine 

 formation, who roamed along the antediluvian shores and 

 aestuaries, and fed amidst the forests of a former world, — how 

 numerous ai'e the proofs here assembled ! 



A detailed account of these deposits cannot but be in- 

 structive, and will be best supplied by those who have frequent 

 opportunities for observation. There is some reason to hope 

 that this information will be furnished by a reverend gentle- 

 man of East Norfolk, who possesses ample materials, and the 

 ability to promote the science of which he is an admirer. 



Let me be permitted to add here one word on the services 

 which the establishment of a provincial museum at Norwich 

 has already rendered, by furthering the progress of local geo- 

 logical discovery, by increasing the number of labourers in 

 the field of science, and by furnishing a public depository of 

 those interesting objects, which illustrate the structure and 

 former condition of the surrounding district, and attest the 

 revolutions to which it has been subjected. 



In tracing the leading superficial features of East Anglia, 

 it will be observed, that the general dip of the strata is to- 

 wards the south-east, forming an angle of inclination, amount- 

 ing probably to not less than 600 feet. At Harwich the up- 

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