A RECENT LANDSLIP ON JORDAN CLIFF. 95 



the ground is fairly solid elsewhere. Some of the grassy strips, 

 which are the tops of old landslips, extend for a considerable 

 distance along the face of the cliff and form regular well-marked 

 terraces. This is especially the case in those numbered 3, 5, 6, 

 and 9, whereas 4, 7, and 8 are very small ones. 



A section 50 yards to the west would show about the same 

 total number of terraces, but all, except two or three, would be 

 slightly different from these. 



I have drawn dotted black lines on the diagram to show what 

 I suppose to be the limits of each little landslip. No. i is the 

 oldest and No. 9 the most recent, but of their respective dates I 

 have no record. 



A walk on the narrow beach underneath will help u's to under- 

 stand how all this movement is accomplished by the united aid 

 of the rain above and the sea below. 



In the first place, the hill is seen to be composed of Coral-rag, 

 and what is called by Damon " Calcareous grit." This appears 

 to be Coral-rag much broken up into rubble and mixed with 

 earthy matter. A stratum of solid stone about 6 feet thick, 

 shown in the diagram by slanting lines, is situated at about 

 20 feet above the beach towards the west, but rises higher 

 towards the east of this hill to perhaps 40 or 50 feet. Mr. W. H. 

 Hudleston tells us that these strata belong to beds known 

 as " Nothe Clay." The hill occupies about mile of coast, and 

 rises to a height of 150 feet or thereabouts. Below this solid 

 stratum is a less solid one much divided by cracks, which is 

 gradually undermined by the sea. After a time a fall takes place 

 of the solid stratum, and for a space of nearly 200 yards (which 

 begins about 200 yards east of the River Jordan) there must 

 have been such a fall within a year or two, as the beach is 

 covered with numerous large masses of rock of the thickness 

 of this stratum, viz., 6 feet, and in some cases 10 feet by 8 feet 

 in size. These present a very fresh appearance, and are not yet 

 rounded by the sea. The remains of the lowest bed have mostly 

 disappeared, as well as of the rubbly beds above, though there 

 are (November lyth, 1900), heaps of several cart loads each of 



