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consisting principally of marsh land, which is heneath the level of 

 the sea, and extends in ditFerent directions to Bungay, Beccles and 

 Halesworth, and was undoubtedly occupied, Capt. Alexander states, 

 at no very remote period, by extensive rivers flowing into an estuary 

 connected with the German Ocean. 



The letter was accompanied by a section constructed by Mr. R. 

 Alexander, and which gives the following bearings of two churches 

 at each end of the cliff: — 



South £«rf.— South wold church, 22° 30' S. of W. ; Blyborough 

 church, 7° 30' N. of W. 



North £«rf.— Roydon church, 14° 3' 45" N. of W. ; Covehithe 

 church, 30° E. of N. 



The bearing of the edge of the cliff, at the two extremities, is 

 stated to be 43° 7' 30" E. of N. 



A paper entitled " Description of Cuttings across the Ridge of 

 Bromsgrove Lickey, on the line of the Birmingham and Gloucester 

 Railway," by Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq., F.G.S. 



When Mr. Strickland laid before the Society, in June 1840*, a 

 description of a series of coloured sections on the Birmingham and 

 Gloucester Railway, the cuttings on the Lickey not having been 

 completed, he was prevented from detailing the phaenomena exhibited 

 on this part of the line. The present communication is therefore 

 supplementary to the former memoir. 



Where the cutting crosses the ridge, it has been excavated to the 

 depth of fifty-six feet, and exhibits, Air. Strickland states, clear proofs 

 of the disturbance which attended the elevation of the Lickey. The 

 lowest rock which has been exposed is a mass of hard, grey, brown- 

 ish or reddish, compact or coarse-grained sandstone, occupying a 

 horizontal distance of about seventy yards, and rising gradually to 

 the north-east to the height of twenty feet. At the point where it 

 attains this visible thickness, it is suddenly cut off by a nearly ver- 

 tical fault. The strata dip about 6.0° to the east-south-east, or from 

 the trap composing the Upper Lickey. No organic remains having 

 been noticed, it is difficult, Mr. Strickland states, to fix the precise 

 geological position of the deposit ; but he is inclined to assign it, on 

 mineral characters, to the lower new red sandstone of Mr. Mur- 

 chisonf. 



These highly inclined strata are overlaid unconformably by a vast 

 mantle-shaped mass of conglomerate, belonging to the " upper new 

 red" or Bunter sandstein. The I)edding of this deposit is so irre- 

 gular that great accuracy of dip is not attainable ; but to the east of 

 the fault the inclination is about 5° to the east-south-east, and to the 

 west about 5° to the south-south-west or south ; and the slight de- 

 parture from horizontaHty is strongly contrasted with the high inch- 

 nation of the lower sandstone. The resemblance of this deposit, 

 consisting of rounded pebbles in soft red sandstone, to ordinary 



* See Proceedings, vol. iii. p. 113 [Phil. Mag., Third Series, vol. xviii. 

 p. 523]. 

 t Silur. Syst., p. 54. 



