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IV. White sand, and soft sand-rock, including thin flakes of light grey clay, and some 



portions of lignite upwards of 80 



a. Cliflf under the castle, Hastings. 



b. Shore below, and on the east of the White Rock. 



c. Bottom of the cliff, near the Sussex Hotel, west of St. Leonard's. 



V. Brownish sandy clay, with much lignite, immediately beneath IV 35 



a. Under the Castle-clifF, behind Pelham-place, Hastings. 



VI. Yellowish and ferruginous sand, and sand-rock, including nodules of pyrites, 



and grains of reddish (pisolitic) oxide of iron 



a. Shore, about low-water mark, beneath the town of Hastings. 



b. Shore between St. Leonard's and the Martello Tower, No. 39. 



VII. Variegated clay and sand, of various shades of red inclining to purple, and 



light greenish grey 



a. Heights west of Bopeep. 



b. Shore from Bulverhithe to Galley Hill. 



c. Similar beds, with granular oxide of iron, are found on the east of Hastings, 



in the bay of the Lover's Seat, &c. 



(82.) The following details respecting the strata just enumerated may be 

 worth preserving-, as the surface of the clitfs will probably soon be concealed. 



I. a. — The highest members of this series are partially exposed on the north of the back 

 street, near the eastern buildings of the Marina and the archway at the entrance of St. Leonard's ; 

 from whence down to the shore is a series of strata, which are horizontal on the line of the strike, 

 but rise in reality towards the north, at an angle between 12° and 15°. The uppermost beds con- 

 sist of soft grey sand-rock, with some intermixture of clay, and form a total thickness^of about 

 66 feet above the road. The lower members are visible in the back street, and on the west of 

 the houses are seen to rise towards the west. The horizontal portion occupies about 150 paces 

 from west to east, and after that space, in consequence of a change in the direction of the shore 

 towards Hastings, a rise towards the east begins to be apparent. The strata which connect this 

 group with the beds of clay around the church hereafter mentioned (III. d.), have been carried 

 away or are concealed. 



I. 6. — The group next below is partially seen on the shore between St. Leonard's and the 

 White Rock. Between the archway and the vacancy in the range of heights, which is called 

 Warriors' Gate, is a low cliff about 250 paces in length, and about 30 feet high, which has been cut 

 away to admit of the erection of houses. It consists of sand-rock, alternating with clay or marl ; 

 the beds of which rise and disappear in succession, corresponding altogether to a total thickness 

 of about 50 feet. 



I. c. — The opening at Warriors' Gate occupies a horizontal space of about 300 paces, and 

 within it, on the north, is a bank of sand-rock like the strata last described. On the east of this 

 opening, a low range of grass-covered cliffs, from 40 to about 60 feet in height, extends without 

 interruption to the beginning of the road over the projecting masses at the White Rock*; and two 



* The storms during the high tides of 1833 and 1834, had so shattered the mass which bore the 

 name of the White Rock, that very few of the interesting appearances represented and described 

 by Mr. Webster now remain, the face of the rocks which aftbrded them having been either con- 

 cealed or carried away. The destruction had been such in April 1834, that the town of Hastings, 

 formerly concealed by the prominence of the shore, was then visible from the entrance of St. 

 Leonard's. 



