Mr. Rose’s Sketch of the Geology of West Norfolk. 41 
district would thus be relieved, nor how much benefit they 
might confer on the natural history of their country*.” 
Swaffham, May 5, 1835. 
Explanation of the Sections and Map. 
The sections do not give the relative proportions or true 
dip of the respective strata, but merely their order of super- 
position. 
Section at Hunstanton Cliff: Thickness. 
No. 1. Vegetable soil and diluvium. feet. inches. 
2. Lower chalk, Lond. and Edinb. Phil. 
es 28 O 
Mag. vol. vil. page 275 ... se. ose 
3. Chalk-marl, 7b. page 276, 2 ft. 6 in. to 3 0 
4. White zoophytic bed, 76. page 181 ... 1 4—6 
A thin seam of red argillaceous matter 
: ; : 0 2—S8 
occurs in this place, 2b. page 181 ... 
5. Red zoophyticlimestone in two beds, fee 
: : - 3 10 
equivalent of the gault, 7b. page 181 
zane greensand. Carstone, 2d. Eee gis 
8. Sandy breccia, 7b. page 176... ve 14 0 
x 
The dotted line points out the course of the ancient beach. 
For these admeasurements I am indebted to Mr. E. Mug- 
gridge of Lynn; they were taken at the highest part of the cliff. 
Mr. Richard C. Taylor’s statement of the greatest depth ex- 
posed of each stratum is published with his section in the 
Philosophical Magazine, vol. Ixi. 1823. 
* Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, vol. i. p. 60,—[also 
Phil. Mag. and Annals, N.S., vol. iii. p. 299.—Ebrv. ] 
Third Series. Vol. 8. No. 43, Jan. 1836. G. 
