﻿THE 



QUARTEELY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 14, 1851. 



Samuel J. Mackie, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Distribution of the Flint Drift of the South-east 

 of England, on the Flanks of the Weald, and over the 

 Surface of the South and North Dow ns. Bv Sir Roderick 

 Impey Murchison, G.C.St.S., F.R.S. G.S. kc\ 



[This paper will appear in the next Part.] 



2. On a Deposit at Folkestone containing Bones of Mammalia, 

 By Samuel J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S. 



The high ground of the Lower Greensand at Folkestone forms a 

 gently inclined plain, stretching inland as far as the hills of the Chalk- 

 escarpment. Between this plain, which constitutes the West Cliff, and 

 the East Cliff or Copt Point, there is a valley*, from 40 to 90 feet 

 deep, in which a considerable part of the Old Town is built, extend- 

 ing in a curving direction through the village of Ford (at which place 

 it is crossed by the viaduct of the South Eastern Railway) towards 



* See View of Folkestone in Dr. Fitton's Section of the Coast, Trans. Geol. Soc. 

 N. S. vol. iv. PI. 8. 



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