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prints varied from 8 inches to 27 inches in length, with strides of. 

 18 inches and upwards, in proportion to the size of the feet. These 

 shales are probably on the same geological horizon as those at East 

 Cliff, in which natural casts of similar imprints frequently occur. 

 2ndly, from the strata of the cliifs at Bulverhithe (including Galley 

 Hill), east of Bexhill. Here also the footprints and their casts are 

 numerous, and sometimes of large size (27 inches long). These 

 track-bearing beds are below the Couden shales, and probably on 

 the horizon of the Castle Rock (Hastings Sand proper) and its under- 

 lying shaly beds. 3rdly, Mr. E. Tagart and Mr. Beckles have noticed 

 the occurrence of the track-marks on sandstone slabs at East Cliff. 

 The place of these shales and calciferous sandstones is immediately 

 above the Castle Rock ; and they may be called the " Endogenites- 

 shales," as that curious plant is of common occurrence in them, 

 both at this cliff, on Castle Rock, at St. Michael's (Coastguard- 

 station, Hastings), and St. Leonard's. 4thly, Mr. Beckles has dis- 

 covered similar print-easts in the strata near Lee Ness, 40 feet 

 above the sea-level. These beds are much lower in the series than 

 the Castle Rock, as shown by the long section of the Hastings coast 

 now exhibited, constructed from observations made by Professor 

 Morris, Mr. Rupert Jones, and myself, at various opportunities during 

 several years. 



Similar casts of footprints (about 12 inches long) occur in the 

 thin sandstones at Biggs' Earm, near Cuckfield. These were ob- 

 served by Mr. Hancock, of Tye's Earm; and a specimen is now 

 in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. In this 

 specimen the toes have made isolated prints, as in Mr. Mann's cast, 

 and in some seen by Mr. Beckles, the palm or heel leaving a 

 faint separate depression. The shales near Cuckfield are higher in 

 the series than some of those at East Cliff, and belong probably to 

 the " Wadhurst Clay " of Mr. Drew. As the Endogenites-shale and 

 the Wadhurst Clay may both be represented at East Cliff (see sec- 

 tion), some of the foot-marks found on the beach here may have 

 come from the upper (Wadhurst) as well as from the lower (Endo- 

 genites) shales. The latter shales, however, certainly bear foot-tracks 

 at Hastings ; for where they come to a low level, behind the Castle, 

 at the Waterworks, the sinkings there exposed some specimens in 

 the calciferous sandstone shales. 



The relations of the strata are well shown in the long section now 

 exhibited, made on a horizontal scale of 8 inches to a mile, with 

 the vertical heights exaggerated three times. We here see the 

 Hastings Beds, with the overlying Weald clay, arching across the 

 Wealden area, and forming low undulations along the crown of the 

 arch. The passage of some beds of sand-rock into clay is well shown 

 on the east of Hastings (from the East Cliff to Goldbury Point) ; and 

 the thinning of the Castle Rock on the same line is also shown. 

 The bearings of the same strata to the west, through St. Leonard's 

 to Bexhill, are of considerable interest, as they appear to lose much 

 of their thickness before they pass under the highest part of the 

 Hastings Sand series and the overlying Weald Clay of Pevensey. 



