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Fig. 80. 

 Freshwater Bay from the East. From a Sketch hij Prof, E. Forbes, 





On the east side of the valley, of which a view is given in 

 Fig. 15, p. 74, a thin spread of flint-gravel and chalky loam 

 occupies the top of the cliff for a considerable distance, and forms 

 a small outlier, now rapidly crumbling away, on the sea-stack 

 known as the Stag Rock. These deposits rapidly thicken into 

 the valley, where behind the new esplanade the subjoined section 

 may be seen : — 



Feet. 

 Soil 1-2 



Flint gravel .-.---- 1-2 



Lenticular mass of stratified chalky loam, with fragments of 



flints ....... 0-6 



Flint gravel - - - - - - -4 + 



The lower beds of flint gravel, on the two sides of the valley, 

 have probably been derived from older gravels that once lay on 

 lands to the south, since washed away. The flint fragments in 

 the upper part have a fresher and less water-worn appearance, 

 and have probably been washed out of the chalk of the Fresh- 

 water Downs. No fragments of chalk, it will be noticed, occur 

 in the lower or far-derived flint gravel, the wear and tear of 

 transport having been too great for their survival. In the upper 

 beds on the east side of the valley Mr. Godwin Austen observed 

 considerable numbers of Pupa muscorum and Succinea ohlonga^ 

 the latter now extinct in the Isle of Wight. 



" The Elephant remains found at Freshwater consist of two 

 molar teeth, of which the first was met with on the west side of 



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