Dr. FiTTON on the Strata below the Chalk. 163 



writ, with Paludinae and Cypris, occurring in the sands about Stone and Knock-house ; and still 

 more conspicuously in the range of heights further south, which extends from Boons-hill to the 

 cliffs below Playden, not far from Rye. 



(79.) Hastings Sands. — Mr. Webster has described and given a drawing 

 of the cliffs on the east of Hastings, in a preceding volume of these Trans- 

 actions* ; and a general section of the coast between the chalk downs of Kent 

 and Sussex will be found in the annexed Plate, X. a. No. 6.f I shall not, 

 therefore, here detail the stratification of this portion of the Wealden, espe- 

 cially as lists of the strata will be given hereafter, in describing the coast of 

 the Isle of Wight and of Dorsetshire ; but shall confine myself to an account 

 of the chffs, on the west of those represented in Mr. Webster's Sectional 

 View, — which were uncovered to a great extent during the progress of the 

 buildings and improvements recently carried on between Hastings and St. 

 Leonard's J. 



(80.) Shore on the West of Hastings. — The anticlinal line of the ridge 

 consisting of the Hastings-sands runs inland, from the shore towards a 

 point about 60° west of north ; beginning on the east of Hastings, about 

 Lee Ness Point, and passing through Battle, and thence along a series 

 of ridges, to its greatest height at Crowborough Beacon, on the south-west 

 of Tonbridge Wells. The strike, on the west of Hastings, is not parallel 

 to the anticlinal ridge, but oblique to it at an angle of about 44°, the strata 

 running nearly from east to west, and dipping generally towards the south. 

 The direction of the coast line for a short distance, at St. Leonard's, co- 

 incides with the strike, but from Hastings to the entrance of that place, 

 makes an angle with it of about 10", — the line of the shore running from 

 about 14" north of east, towards the south of west ; and on the west of 

 St. Leonard's, the coast turns a little towards the north of west, and again 

 makes a small angle with the strike. In going along the shore, therefore, 

 from Hastings towards Bulverhithe, the strata first appear to be inclined 



* Geological Transactions, 2nd Series, Vol. II. p. 31, &c. For additional information on the 

 Wealden tracts in general, the reader is referred to Mr. Mantell's publications ; Mr. Lyell's " Prin- 

 " ciples of Geology," (3rd edition). Vol. IV. chap. 21 and 23, pp.165— 191, 219, &c. ; and to 

 " A Sketch of the Geology of Hastings," 12mo, 1832, by the author of the present paper. 



•f This general section is on the same scale of relative height and horizontal distance, as all the 

 others in Plate X. a. ; but as a correct estimate of the elevation is, in this case, important to theory, 

 the heights are given in true proportion, on the line immediately below, as has been done by Mr. 

 Lyell, in one of his chapters on the structure of the Wealden. 



X The Sections following in the text, from (80.) to (90.), formed the substance of a Notice 

 read before the Geological Society, in November, 1833 (Proceedings, vol. ii. p. 1.) ; and are here 

 introduced by the permission of the President and Council. 



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