Dr. FiTTON on the Strata below the Chalk. 



135 



A second break or open space, like those above mentioned, (p. 133.), 

 occurs immediately on the west of Sundridge Church, which stands on the 

 northern slope, very near the summit of the ridge ; and a third break, with a 

 flat of about 100 paces, separates the continuation of that height from 

 another, occupied by a small wood belonging to Brasted Place, and called 

 by the inhabitants the "New World": and here the top of the curve is 

 visible in several places, from one of which this sketch was taken. The 

 cracks in the principal bed here 



represented, (which is about nine- .is^<4>i^^J^^Tu'^^?T" 

 inches thick,) are wide and irre- -^^^ " yy^^^^L^ 



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gular ; but the stone has every ^j 

 appearance of having been once 

 continuous. 



The bending of the strata is also very well disclosed in the grounds of 

 Brasted Place itself, at the opposite side of the lane by which they are 

 separated from the little wood of the "New World." The curve is there less 

 rapid than in the wood ; and the thickest bed of stone, marked A, is traversed 

 by cracks from a quarter to half an inch in width, the separated portions being 

 somewhat displaced, as if they had been forced out of continuity. 



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South. 



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(43.) A continuation of the ridge above described may be traced westward 

 from Brasted Place, for about four miles; and on the roadside ascending to 

 the Chart near Moorhouse, about midway between Westerham and Lympsfield, 

 beds are exposed, which dip rapidly to the north ; obviously forming a por- 

 tion of a saddle, like that of Dry Hill, and, to all appearance, a prolongation 

 of it.* 



From what I have seen in other parts of this country, I have little doubt 

 that many of the ridges within the tract occupied by the lower green-sand 

 may be ascribed to similar disturbances of the strata. A slight indication of 

 something of this kind near Folkstone has been already referred to (32.). On 

 the Ordnance map a prominent range is represented as running nearly 

 north-west and south-east, from the village of Seal, through Seal Chart, to the 



* Marks of disturbance along a line of direction different from that described in the text, are 

 observable also about half a mile south of Dry Hill, near the Manor Farm House ; where the beds 

 on one side of the ravine dip towards a point about 20° south of east, while on the opposite side 

 they are inclined to the west of north. 



