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♦ KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



289 



THE NEW TELEGRAPH TIRIFF 



^ sttrliy witnessed 



bcsetn ( ll Mil i I ""l) to f i 11 1 t j 



to the east and llunst^nton ib supplii. 1 i 1 t r f m 

 springs m this rock 



Lastly — and of comparatively recent geological age — 

 we come to the marshy beds which cover the older rocks 

 and form a strip along the sliore, extending inland from 

 a quarter of a mile to two miles. TVe can trace them 

 from the railway station southwards to Heacham station, 

 Wolverton, and beyond. In the large pit at the gasworks 

 a thick bed of sand and shingle is worked, which contains 

 numerous marine shells of species still existing, showing 

 tliat the deposit is one of late geological age. On the 

 fore-shore, a " submerged forest " may be detected when 

 the tide is at its lowest : it is probably an extension of a 



h pissed 

 t of the 

 pon the 



prel I tins vl 1 I 1 1 ! l 



of n mere sc f tl r ] 1 t f 



peiformt I tl ^t r 1 i tt 1 



rule one of th sta 1 i t nc 



a Government department, a 



undertaking, not to anticipate 



exigencies as they arise. I 



under consideration, howe 



on one side, and a broadi 



of matter.s taken and adopted. There is one danger 



which beyond and above all others must bo avoided, and 



that is the risk of providing in.sufficient accommodation. 



As matters stand, everything is speculation, and there is 



little warrant for the assumption that there will be 



immediately an extensive increase in the number of 



rk 



ment of 



opposed to a private 



but only to provide for 



In a case like the one 



•, such tenets have to be cast 



lercial view 



I»eatbed which once had a much larger area. At the 

 nouthern end of Hunstanton cliff, a thin mass of reddish 

 boulder c'ay rests on the white chalk ; and in Hunstantf n 

 Park is a winding ridge of gravel and sand, evidently 

 identical with the deposits called " kames " in Scotland 

 and " cB\iT3 " in Ireland. The vertical relations of all 

 the strata are shown in Fig. 2, from the oldest — the 

 Kimeridge clay at the base — to the newest — the beds of 

 boulder-clay and alluvium which lie indiscriminately on 

 the upturned edges of any or all of the " solid " rocks. 



Thus, at Hunstanton, we have first the "solid " geology 

 exemplified by the strata from the lower greensimd to the 

 rhalk, and then the " superficial " geology of the surface 

 deposits of boulder clay, gravel, &c. Between the deposit 

 of these two sets of rocks an cnrrnors interval of time 

 elapsed, during which strata, many tliousnnds of fee) in 

 thickness, were (lr]».sitr,l i„ oltnr lo,-:ili(lrs. 'rii.s. wlio 

 visit Hunstanton will liiMl LiMciinj; air and :i milium' sr:i ; 

 if tliey desire a pleasant occn|Kiliou for their Icsun- hiiurs, 

 let them turn to the rocks, study their nature, and collect 

 their fossils. 



The death-rat« of lK)nilon declined last week to 13-8 per thousand 

 aunually, which is stated by the Rt-gistrai-Guncnil to be consider- 

 ably lower than in any other week since the publication of the 

 omcial returns. 



persons using the telegraph. However, the scheme as 

 promulgated and passed by Parliament has riTcivrd such 

 a considerable amount of attention at tlio h ui.U ot the 

 daily press, that there is little call to enl:ir_-L' hero iL;^n 

 this phase of the subject. Nor could much good result 

 from it, seeing that everything is determined upon and 

 is for the present unalterable. The preparations which 

 have been made to cope with the expected increase are 

 on a most gigantic scale— much more so than 

 would at first "sight appear from the amount of 

 money which has been expended, or from the in- 

 creased expenditure which it is surmised will in 

 the future be incurred. The cost of these preparations 

 so far has been but little over half a million of nioney,_ a 



Ofllc 



which, expended by tl 

 e, or any kindred "spo 



,itirr ■ipi'li HUTS iinpl' \rA. lias been 

 a.e ati.l ereen^n of wires and poles. 

 that lualiy tluMisiial ime^ of v ire »ad 

 s liavi' to" be ereeteil 1 efor,- any con- 



L.f what has been done throughout the 



