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be difficult to draw the actual cliff with 

 its succession of irregular projections. 



The junction of the Chalk without 

 flints and the Greensand may be seen 

 amongst the fallen masses west of the 

 landslip (of 1790). In the cliff the no- 

 dular LoAYcr Chalk is underlain by, and 

 passes into, a calcareous bed (4 of fig. 2) 

 full of green grains and quartz-grains, 

 with lighter- coloured harder nodular 

 lumps and small hard brown nodules, 

 about five feet thick ; below this is a hard 

 brown and greenish nodular layer, also 

 with quartz-grains, forming the top of 

 the succeeding bed (5 of fig. 2), which 

 is like that above (but whiter and with 

 fewer grains), and five feet thick ; it is 

 underlain hj another nodular layer that 

 forms the top of a calcareous grit 

 (Greensand). The two beds, 4 and 5, 

 seem to thin out westward as in the 

 figure, the higher one going the further. 



The opening of the gallery of an old 

 quarry in the high cliff above the western 

 end of the great landslip is in what I 

 take to be the "Beer stone." As the 

 beds worked are just above the Chalk 

 Marl, it follows that they are simply 

 Lower Chalk ; and this conclusion as to 

 the position of the Beer stone is strength- 

 ened by an examination of the great 

 quarry inland, where the stone is still 

 worked. 



This quarry is about three quarters of 

 a mile westward of the village of Beer ; 

 and at the time of my visit the part on 

 the northern side of the road gave the 

 section below, with a dip of 4° E. 



Chalk with flints 30 or 40 feet. 



fa. Thickly bedded, massive, with 

 a rough layer on top (mostly 

 forming a hard even cap). . . 15ormoi'e. 



b. Massive, more crystalline bed 

 (" freestone") about 10 



c. More splintering, and M'ith 

 dividing lines of a darker 

 tint about 8 



? Chalk Marl. Bottom part with a 

 few quartz-grains and black grains. 



a, h, ^r. arc all parts of one mass. 



