312 PROF. T. G. BONNEY AND REV. E. HILL ON THE [Aug. 1 899, 



part of a third also oblique. In addition, we made a partial 

 examination of the district inland to the north of Krampass-Sassnitz, 

 and obtained some idea of the coast of Prorer Wick during an 

 excursion by steamer to Gorenz, south of Jasmund ; this shore-line 

 is at first fringed with sand-dunes, but after Binz, where the coast 

 turns shai^ply eastward, the ground rises from the sea in steep 

 slopes or even cliffs, which, so far as we could ascertain, consist 

 wholly of Drift. 



In the Stubnitz district the Drift associated with the Chalk 

 is less simple than that of Moen, for it consists of stony clays 

 and well-bedded sand. The latter, as will be seen, has a clay-bed 

 both above and below it ; but away from the coast sand seems to 

 be more commonly the deposit that underlies the surface-soil. 

 This, however, may be a later deposit ; but we did not minutely 

 investigate that question, as it had no direct bearing on the subject 

 ef our enquiry. 



We notice first two sets of sections which stand rather apart 

 from the others : — 



(a) That seen in a cliff, some 20 feet high, between the eastern 

 wall of the grounds of Schloss Dwasieden and the western end of 

 Krampass, which reminded us of phenomena exhibited near Cromer. 

 Here we find, as we walk towards the east, first a sandy clay con- 

 taining some stones, underlain by sand which rises from the shore 

 till it occupies the whole cliff". This sand is very irregularly bedded, 

 and contains streaks and ' pockets ' of gravel, often fairly coarse. 

 Next, streaks and a few boulders of Chalk make their appearance in 

 it, most, if not all of them, being reconstituted. The largest piece 

 is 4 or 5 yards long, and about as many feet thick. The bedding 

 of the sand, which previously was little disturbed, now becomes 

 much contorted, and at one place, close to the fragments, is bent up 

 into a puckered arch, just as might be seen in the Contorted Drift 

 at Cromer. After an interval, in which both stony clay and bedded 

 sand are exposed, a mass of Chalk rises steeply from the shore. 

 As that rock can be seen glimmering for some distance through the 

 shallow water, and it is cei^tainly in situ not far away inland, we 

 think that this also is probably not a boulder.^ 



(h) A bedded sand, as already mentioned, frequently underlies the 

 surface-soil in the southern part of the forest between the eastern 

 coast and the road to Stubbenkammer. We examined three pits 

 opened in this material. One (about 1 mile north-east of Sassnitz 

 and a couple of furlongs from the coast) affords a clear section of some 

 20 feet of sand above a talus of the same material. The sand is 

 well laminated, in one or two places distinctly false-bedded, ranging 

 from fine to coarse, and including one seam of the latter about 

 18 inches thick : this contains a few pebbles, one or two of which 

 are quite 1 inch in diameter, though the majority are smaller. The 

 bedding, however, though generally so regular, is almost vertical, 



^ Further examination is then prevented by a wall. 



