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scarcely repay the expense of working. This bed and the strata 

 above it, rise rather rapidly in the Cloughton cliffs; while fresh beds 

 of sandstone and shale appear beneath. 



Here, however, the lower beds are soon entirely concealed, by 

 u remarkable slip of the upper strata, extending longitudinally along 

 the shore, like the slip between Cayton mill and Scai'borough; and 

 producing, like that, a higher and a lower cliff, with an extensive 

 platform between them. In the higher cliff we see the strata in their 

 regular order, as at the wyke : but in the loAver cliff, which is washed 

 by the sea, they are, as might be expected, broken and irregular. 

 The intermediate platform, which no doubt was once on a level with 

 the surface at the top of the upper cliff, is of considerable extent; 

 being in some places nearly a furlong in breadth, and reaching in 

 length above half a mile, the slip terminating at Haiburn wyke, the 

 next remarkable creek on this shore. The falling of this slip comes 

 within the reach of tradition. It is said to have taken place at the 

 distance of about four generations, or within the last 200 years. 



At the back of Haiburn wyke, the strata are again interrupted, 

 by the deep valley, or ravine, through which Haiburn beck flows into 

 the sea. That this interruption has not been produced by the stream 

 wearing its channel, nor by the mere washing away of the strata, may 

 be inferred from the singular appearance of some large beds of sand- 

 stone at the mouth of the beck, on the north side. These beds are 

 curiously bent, in the form of a segment of a circle, with the hollow 

 part uppermost ; indicating, that the interruption at this wyke has 

 been connected with a depression, break, or curvature, of the strata. 

 The broken appearance of the strata, for some distance to the north 

 of this spot, serves to corroborate this idea. 



Beyond this interruption, we again meet with steep and lofty 

 cliffs, in which the strata are continued in regular order. And here we 

 may remark, that as the strata, after their rapid rise from Cloughton 



