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the Lower Oolite, and its highest point is under 400 feet above 

 the sea-level: the southern one of Lower Oolite based upon 

 Lias, and its highest point is under 600 feet : and both of them 

 decline gradually in elevation from north-west to south-east. 



5. South of the Howardian tract the district contains a small 

 portion of the great Central Vale. 



We will take the coast-line first, and then the hill-country and 

 the dales, proceeding in order from east to west. 



From the High Peak southward as far as Hayburn Wyke we 

 have a grand range of cliffs, which between these two points, a 

 distance of four miles, sinks in altitude from 595 to 296 feet 

 'v'gh water mark. These precipices show a complete 

 series of the beds of rock from the Lower Oolite down to the 

 Lower Lias Shale. At Hayburn Wyke is the mouth of a 

 secluded branched glen from the west and north-west, which is 

 called Staintondale. Past Cloughton and Scalby the cliffs are 

 lower, and the beds dip rapidly in a southern direction. At 

 Cloughton Wyke the calcareous band of the Lower Oolite 

 occupies the shore. At Scalby is the mouth of another little 

 stream, which is connected with the Derwent by what is called 

 the New Cut. Towards Scarborough the Upper Sandstones of 

 the Lower Oolite, with drift over them, form a cliff of under 

 200 ft. in height. The Castle Hill at Scarborough is composed of 

 an outlying mass of the hard calcareous rocks of the Middle 

 Oolite, which form here a bold rocky promontory, which rises 

 to a height of 300 feet, and stands out abruptly against the sea, 

 and has the sea flowing round three-fourths of its circumference. 

 The town of Scarborough is situated upon the low diluvial sea- 

 bank which this promontory guards, and inland from it extends 

 the lowest ground which we have upon this line of coast, and a 

 calcareous nab, called Oliver's Mount, rises abruptly from this 

 low ground to a height of 510 feet, with a steep escarpment 

 towards the north, and with what was once a sedgy mere at its 

 base, but which is now greatly reduced by drainage. The 



