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MUNDESLEY FRESH-WATER FORMATION. 



been of late years, and finding at that period not a few of 

 the fossils in the lignite beds, No. 3', above the' forest bed, 

 identical in species with those from the post-glacial deposits, 

 B c, I supposed the whole to have been of contemporaneous 



C3 C3 . =:3 c=3 C3 C3 <O.C3 1 



Section of the newer fresh-water formation in the cliffs at Mundesley, two miles 

 S.E. of Cromer, drawn up by the Rev. S. W. King. 



Height of cliff where lowest, 35 feet above high water. 



Older Series. 

 1 Fundamental chalk, below the beach-line. 



3 Forest bed, with elephant, rhinoceros, stag, <fec., and with tree roots 



and stumps, also below the beach-line. 

 3' Finely laminated sands and clays, with thin layer of lignite, and 

 shells of Cj'clas, and Yalvata, and with Mytilus in some beds. 



4 Glacial boulder till. 



5 Contorted drift. 



6 Gravel overlying contorted drift. 



N.B. — No. 2 of the section, fig. 27, at p. 21.3, is wanting here. 



Newer Fresh-water Beds. 

 A Coarse river gravel, in layers inclined against the till and laminated 



sands. 

 B Black pe.aty deposit, with shells of Anodon, Yalvata, Cyclas, Suc- 



cinea, Limnea, Paludina, <fec., seeds of Ceratophyllum demersum, 



Nuphar lutea, scales and bones of pike, perch, salmon, (fee., elytra 



of Donacia, Copris, Ilarpalus, and other beetles. 

 C Yellow sands. 

 D Drift gravel. 



origin, and so described them in my paper on the Norfolk 

 cliffs.* 



Mr. Gunn was the first to perceive this mistake, which he 

 explained to me on the spot when I revisited Mundesley in 

 the autumn of 1859, in comj^any with Dr. Hooker and 



® Philosophical Magazine, vol. xvi. May, 1S40, p. 345. 



