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Avyke, become nearly horizontal in the high cliffs to the south of 

 Haiburn wyke, so they preserve a similar direction in the Stainton 

 Dale cliffs, their rise being for the most part very gradual. 



From what has been observed concerning the transitions and 

 variations in this series, it will not be expected, that the beds in the 

 Stainton cliffs, will correspond exactly with those at Cloughton wyke. 

 The following is a summary of the strata, at some distance to the 

 north of Haiburn wyke : 



1. Thick beds of sandstone, reaching the alluvial surface. 



2. A thin bed of shale. 



3. The grey limestone. 



4. The blue limestone. 



5. Another thin bed of shale. 



6. A bed of sandstone of vast thickness. 



7. A very large bed of bituminous shale, containing thin seanre 

 of coal, and thin beds of schistose sandstone. 



8. A thick and massive bed of sandstone. 



9. A considerable bed of shale, descending to the beach. 

 This series does not proceed far undisturbed ; for in advancing 



northward, we soon meet with another longitudinal slip of the strata, 

 of far greater magnitude than any thing of the kind which we have 

 yet noticed. It is fully two miles in length, and in some places 

 about a quarter of a mile broad. Here we find double cliffs, as at 

 the Cayton and Cloughton slips, and a large tract of pasture ground 

 intervening, with some coppice wood. The lower cliff, as at the 

 other slips, is greatly broken and dislocated ; while the cliff that rises 

 behind the platform, and which in most places is of a much greater 

 thickness, presents the strata in their regular position. The platform 

 is by no means a uniform level, the enormous mass of land that has 

 sunk down, having been rent and disordered in its fall ; the fore part 

 generally swelling into an irregular ridge, while the back part, sink- 



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