36 IRON SAND FORMATION. 



Blue bind - - - 

 Strong brown rock 

 Blue-hind, containing 



impressions of fern 



leaves - - 2 1 6 



Yards 54 1 9 



The borings were continued, but no account remains of the nature 

 or depth of the strata : mention is made of a second bed of coal four 

 feet six inches thick, the coal of bad quaUty, and very sulphureous. 

 Salt-water oozed through the divisions of the beds, and although an 

 engine of eighty horse power was employed, the works were completely 

 inundated. 



I have not seen any specimens of the Bexhill coal, but according to 

 Mr. Rand, it resembled that of Newick. It is not a little curious, that 

 research for coal in so improbable a situation, should have been attended 

 with the slightest indication of such a substance ; since if in the present 

 infancy of geological science, we may venture to draw any general con- 

 clusions from estabhshed facts, there was every reason to suppose, that 

 such an attempt must have proved abortive. 



At Waldron, a thin bed of cannel coal has been noticed on the banks 

 of a rivulet which separates that parish from Heathfield ; but it has not 

 been examined with any degree of attention. It is stated to occur in beds 

 of a few inches thick, that extend for a quarter of a mile immediately 

 beneath the surface, at the bottom of Geer's wood. 



Organic Remains. 



The organic remains discovered in the strata above described, are few 

 and unimportant. The bivalves of the Hmestone ; the hnpressioris of 

 ferns in the sandstone of Bexhill and Hastings ; and the fragments of 

 lignite in that of Horsted, being the only extraneous fossils that have been 

 observed. 



