INTRODUCTION. 



" c. Wadhurst Clay. 1 Consisting of 

 dark-blue shales and clays, inter- 

 calated with thin slabs of sand- 

 stone, also sand-rock, with ' blue 

 stone' at base. 



"b. Ashdown Sands. Thick beds of 

 sandstone, divided by thin layers 

 of shales and clays. 



"a. Fairlight Clays. Clays and shales 

 predominating, but with some beds 

 of sandstone and ironstone ; these 

 latter yielding, very locally, Perns, 

 Cycads and Conifers. 



"NOTE. The general course of the 

 ancient Wealden River, as evidenced by 

 the ripple-marks (which would naturally 

 be found parallel to the stream), and 

 also by the trend of scattered remains, 

 such as the bones of individual animals, 

 trunks of trees, and other debris, appears 

 to have taken a direction in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Hastings from K.E. to S.W. 

 Consequently the coast section would 

 be obliquely across the bed of the 

 river, and this fact may account for 

 the very limited extent of outcropping 

 fossiliferous beds." 



1 See also Topley, Weald, p. 46. 



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