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round the Football Hole lay the way to the long scar running 

 out to sea, formed by the Whinsill and the Great Limestone. 

 After examination of this interesting structure the firm stretcii 

 of sands was followed to the Long Nanny Burn, whereabouts 

 the grass of Parnassus, bloody cranesbill, hemlock storksbill, 

 sea-rocket and thrift were still found in flower ; and thence to 

 Beadnell Harbour. Here another sloping scar of the Great 

 Limestone, dolomitic in character, and on which are the ruins of 

 the old chapel said to have been built in the memory of St. Ebba, 

 runs out to sea, buff in colour and some thirty feet in thickness. 

 The use of the hammer here brought to light some interesting 

 fossils, whilst the bird-lovers found the end of the scar a good 

 point of vantage from which to watch the passing flight of sea 

 and shore birds. 



Along the sandhills, past Annstead and across the Swinhoe 

 Burn, which runs into the sea at Ebb's Snook — another 

 interesting geological formation — to the thriving fishing village 

 of Seahouses, its fine harbour sheltering a fleet of local and 

 Scotch herring boats. The outer breakwater was crowded 

 with gulls, whilst on a reef lying further out a number of oyster- 

 catchers were running merrily to and fro, and feeding along the 

 sandy shore many of the wading birds were to be seen, young 

 turnstones, ringed plover, sanderlings, redshanks and dunlins, 

 some of which showed little fear, allowing some of the party to 

 approach quite closely. 



The following are a few notes by Mr. Smith on the geology 

 of the coast between the mouth of Swinhoe Burn and Newton 

 Point :— 



"The strata exposed in the cliffs and on the foreshore between 

 the mouth of Swinhoe Burn and Newton Point belong to the 

 middle portion of the Upper Bernician. The beds emerge 

 from beneath the sands near Annstead, and between a fault 

 near their point of appearance and Ebb's Snook, the complete 

 succession, from a bed a short distance below the Oxford 

 Limestone to the Great Limestone, may be traversed in 

 ascending order. The limestones and sandstones jut out to 



