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Dr FiTTON on the Strata below the Chalk. 



which it separates are about seventy feet above their base. The strata^ which 

 form the southern slope of the ridge^ dip southwards at an angle of about 

 45°, and the apparent distance (or chord of the curve) from the beginning of 

 the rise on either side is rather more than a furlong. The wood near 

 Cold Harbour is full of old quarries^ which seem to have been dug into the top 

 of the saddle. 



(42.) A very good view of these elevated strata is disclosed on the east of a 

 lane which strikes off" from the main road between Bessell's Green and Sun- 

 dridge, passing Dry Hill Farm; quarries having been opened there in two 

 detached points, marked A and B in the subjoined sketch. It is difficult to 

 estimate the width of the ridge at this place from north to south, its termi- 

 nations not being distinct, at either extremity, but it seems to be about 1200 

 paces. 



South- 



.about 1200 paces. 



At the more northern of these quarries. A, the beds are distinctly, but 

 slightly, curved ; and the strike is not parallel to the general course of the 

 ridge, but runs from about 16° east of north to 16° west of south ; forming, with 

 the direction of the ridge, an angle of about 64°. At the second quarry, B*, 

 (of which a sketch on a larger scale is given below,) both sides of the saddle 

 are visible within the distance of a few paces, the beds on the north rising 

 at an angle of about 60°, while on the south they decline at an angle of 

 about 45°. 



North 



Soxdk. 



22 paces. 



In the southern portion of this section, which is about twenty-two paces 

 in length, and twenty-five feet high, I counted twenty-two beds of concre- 

 tional stone alternating with sand, and varying in thickness from eighteen 

 inches to nine. 



* This place is immediately on the east of a barn on the road-side, north of Dry Hill Farm, 

 and about 270 paces distant from A, on a line bearing about 36° west of south. 



