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APPEARANCE OF: AN ANCIENT BEACH, 
UNDER THE HOE. 
ANOTHER circumstance, which I feel reluctant to 
pass over in silence, is, that in many parts of the 
Hoe, on the declivity towards the sea, about fifteen 
or twenty feet above high-water-mark, and in’ other 
plaees also, there is a bed of sand and. water-worn 
pebbles, .varying in thickness, from less than a foot, 
to that of two or three, cemented together in layers; 
which layers, however, are composed of pebbles about. 
the same size. This was strikingly visible. when the. 
new road.was made, round by the sea, a few years 
since; strongly indicating, that this was, at a re- 
mote period, the level of the sea. 
