70 Rev. E. Mill—Stevn's Klint, Denmark. 



and is certainly specifically distinct. The largest specimen 

 [No. C. 7676a], a broad- whorled form, has scratched upon it the 

 locality " Lakur." Its dimensions are : — diameter of shell, 59'omm. ; 

 height of outer whorl, 18-5 mm. ; thickness of outer whorl, 31 mm. ; 

 width of umbilicus, 25-5 mm. The largest specimen but one is 

 a little better preserved, with sharper and somewhat coarser orna- 

 ments, but is not such a broad-whorled form as will be seen from 

 its dimensions, which are : — diameter of shell, 57*5 mm. ; height of 

 outer whorl, 17-5 mm. ; thickness of outer whorl, 26*5 mm. ; width 

 of umbilicus, 27*5 mm. 



[To be continued.) 



V. — Stevn's Klint. 

 By the Rev. E. Hill, M.A., F.G.S. 



THE fine cliff of Stevn's Klint on the Danish coast is seldom; 

 mentioned in English geological writings. As it presents 

 a clean section several miles long of the uppermost Danish Chalk, 

 and is easily visited in a day's excursion from Copenhagen, a short 

 sketch maj' have some interest for readers of this Magazine. It. has 

 none of the astonishing scenery displayed by the coasts of Mtien 

 and Eiigen ; the land is level and bare, the cliff is not broken and 

 not wooded : yet it possesses a prettiness of its own. 



A railway running south from Kjoge, a town south-west of 

 Copenhagen, forks at Haarlev : the western bi'anch leads to th© 

 famous inland quarry of Fakse,^ the eastern to a coast hamlet called 

 Riidvig. The Chalk in the cliff here is only a few feet high, but 

 it rises in the eastward direction and may be followed along its 

 edge for the full length. Or the train may be left at Storr© 

 Hedinge, a little town with a respectable hotel, whence four miles 

 of road lead to the cliff at Hojerup, whei'e the section is most 

 accessible. 



The ancient church here stands on the cliff, closer to the edge 

 than those at Dunwich or Sidestrand, and, unlike those, in full use 

 still. Guidebooks print a local legend that it would have fallen 

 long ago hut that every Christmas night it shifts itself a hmids- 

 breadth {hanefjed, a cock's step) inland, to remain as before 

 uninjin-ed on the brink. 



The country traversed from Storre Hedinge is level, almost with- 

 out undulation, to the cliff edge. The cliff section shows this to be 

 the upper surface of Glacial Drift, here a somewhat earthy or silty 

 cla}', containing stones and occasional boulders up to a foot across. 

 Clean sections are not very frequent. In these, as elsewhere in 

 Baltic Drifts, there is sometimes an appearance of divisions; e.g., 

 about 1 or 1^ miles north of the Lighthouse I noted (in descending 

 order) : red earthy clay, 3 feet ; light-brown, dry, cracked clay, with 

 chalk and large boulders, 4 feet or more ; pale chalky clay, tougher 

 and less cracked, with more stones and flints, and with a boulder 



' Commonly, but wrongly, Faxoe. See Geol. Mag., 1901, p. 486. 



