308 PEOF. T. G. BONNET AND KEV. E. HILL ON THE [Aug. 1899^ 



(2) In the cliffs near Taleren, which are fully 300 feet high, 

 a grey earthy clay is seen from the beach apparently occupying 

 a nearly vertical cleft or gully in the Chalk, which reaches down to 

 the sea-level. Higher up the cleft opens out into a ravine, which 

 seems to he partly filled with a grey chalky earth, but this may be 

 only a ' wash-over ' of a comparatively small portion of that material 

 from above. Viewing this ravine from the top of the cliffs, we saw 



Fig. 1. — Section at ForcTihammers Pynt (Mden). 



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1 = Chalk (the wall at the base is about 7 or 8 feet high). 



2 = Clay. 3 = Talus, mostly made up of Chalk. 



[The sketches throughout do not profess to be more than diagrams. Flints 

 were inserted only where they were distinctly seen, being often hidden by a 

 wash of Chalk or Drift : hence the interruptions to the bands.] 



on the northern side, about halfway down, some fragments of the 

 clay occupying a hollow in the Chalk. The surface of the Chalk 

 plainly curved over the grey clay, and the hollow occupied by the 

 latter obviously was not connected with the folding of the Chalk 

 indicated by the bands of nodular flints, but subsequent to it. Other 



