446 RAMBLES OF A GEOLOGIST. 



The concluding portion of his life, after his deposition, was 

 spent in obscurity ; nor did his successor in the bishoprick, 

 subsequent to the re-establishment of Episcopacy at the Re- 

 storation, Bishop Honeyman, close his days more happily. 

 He was struck in the arm by the bullet which the zealot 

 Mitchell had intended for Archbishop Sharp ; and the shat- 

 tered bone never healed ; " for, though he lived some years 

 after," says Burnet, " they were forced to lay open the wound 

 every year, for an exfoliation /' and his life was eventually 

 shortened by his sufferings. All seemed comfortable enough, 

 and quite quiet enough, in the bishop's country-house to-day. 

 There were two cows quietly chewing the cud in what appa- 

 rently had been the dignitary's sitting-room, and patiently 

 awaiting the services of a young woman who was approaching 

 at some little distance with a pail. A large gray cat, that had 

 been sunning herself in a sheltered corner of the court-yard, 

 started up at our approach, and disappeared through a slit 

 hole. The sun, now gone far down the sky, shone brightly 

 on shattered gable-tops, and roofless, rough-edged walls, re- 

 vealing many a flaw and chasm in the yielding masonry ; and 

 their shadows fell with picturesque effect on the loose litter, 

 rude implements, and gapped diy-stone fence, of the neglected 

 farm-yard which surrounds the building. 



I have said that the flat promontory occupied by the ruin 

 is edged by hills of indurated sand. Existing in some places 

 as a continuous bed of a soft gritty sandstone, scooped wave- 

 like a-top, and varying from five to eight feet in thickness, 

 they form a curious example of a subaerial formation, the 

 sand of which they are composed having been all blown from 

 the sea-beach, and consolidated by the action of moisture on 

 a calcareous mixture of comminuted shells, which forms from 

 twenty to twenty-five per cent, of their entire mass. I found 

 that the sections of the bed laid open by the encroachments 

 of the sea were scarce less regularly stratified than those of a 



