66 ALTERNATE SLOW AND RAPID RISE 



Raised Beach. Had there been any long interval, 

 there would have been some form of sedimentary 

 deposit between the Beach and the Head or the 

 blown sands ; but there is none. With the com- 

 mencement of the elevatory movement, effluent 

 currents at once came into play, and, according to 

 their varying velocity, carried down, sometimes the 

 surface soil or the freshly deposited Loess, and 

 at others the coarse surface detritus. The con- 

 clusion from this is that the upheaval was by fits 

 and starts, or rather by a continuous movement, 

 sometimes very slow and at others more or less 

 rapid, and ending with one of greater rapidity. 

 "Where hollows or cavities existed on the surface, 

 the debris fell into them. Open fissures were filled 

 to the brim by the passing debris, while the 

 current, acting as a broom, brushed off any pro- 

 jecting debris on the top of the fissures, and 

 at the same time swept bare the adjacent more 

 exposed surfaces. 



We judge from these conditions that the sub- 

 mergence took place slowly and continuously. I do 

 not mean by slow, that it took years, but so slow 

 possibly as on the whole to be hardly apparent to the 

 spectator of the scene, or, may be, it would give him 

 the reverse impression, such as that experienced when 

 one's own train at a railway station makes a noise- 

 less start and another train is standing still alongside, 

 that that train was moving and your own stationary 

 or vice versa. So, in this case, the land would seem 

 to one standing on it, as though it were immovable 



