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B. CowLEAzE to Barneses Chine; about 2\bQ paces. 



The strata on the west of Cowleaze Chine afford little variety and no very prominent features. 



The Chine cuts through the bed, or group of sand-rock above mentioned ; — which goes out on 



the north-west of a prominence called Barnes's Hill (or Barnes's High), and probably is the 



cause of its durability and elevation. 



T5, At the foot of the cliff, where Cowleaze Chine opens upon the shore, a seam of hard 



yellowish grey sand -rock arises, which is slightly effervescent : it goes out at the top of the cliff 

 about 1800 north-west of Cowleaze Chine. If it were necessary to assign any strict boundary 

 to the formation, this might be considered as the beginning of the Hastings Sands. 



75 900. A mass of reddish and variegated tenacious sandy clay next comes in, much interspersed 



with pyrites and containing wood-coal. It rises about 75 paces from the Chine, and occupies 

 more than 800 paces on the shore, the top going out about 1800, and the bottom about 2000, 

 very near to Barnes's Chine. The proportion of red and greenish variegated clay, like those of 

 this great bed, to the sand-rock, is henceforward so great in the cliffs, that the name of sands is 

 misapplied to this part of the formation. The general resemblance of the strata to the va- 

 riegated marls of the new red sandstone, {keuper of the Germans,) has been already mentioned. 



900 1050. A group of sand-rock, including in several parts of its course large nodular masses 



of hard grey grit, next occupies about 150 paces on the shore. It is about 15 feet in vertical 

 thickness. 



1050 — 1800. This space on the shore seems to be totally occupied by dark reddish, marly and 

 sandy clay, variegated with greenish and grey, which form a large portion of the upper and 

 middle portions of Barnes's Chine. 



1800 to about 1950. A bed of sand-rock, called by the inhabitants "Barnes's Sand~rock", rises 

 about 1800. It is cut through by the lower part of Barnes's Chine, and goes out far to the 

 north-west of it. 



1950. Dark reddish and variegated clay again comes in, and is continued towards the north-west. 



2150, from Cowleaze, is the middle point o{ Barnes's Chine. 



C. Barnes's Chine to Grange Chine; 2300 paces. 



The cliff throughout this space also is very little varied. The bed of sand-rock above men- 

 tioned (1800 to 1950) rises steadily in the middle and upper part of it, crossing Chip's Chine, and 

 going out at top near Ship-ledge, hereafter mentioned. 



The dark red and variegated clay, 1950, occupies the shore on both sides of Barnes's Chine, 

 and extends far to the north-west. The coast here is throughout a range of low, nearly uniform 

 cliffs, of a dull reddish hue. 



500, north-west of Barnes, is the place of Chip's Chine. 

 1000. The place of Ship-ledge ; a group of sand-rock beds, which runs out far into the sea, and 



is rendered more solid by concretions of subcalcareous grit. 

 2300. The place of Grange Chine. 



D. Grange Chine to Brook Chine; 5600 paces. 

 635 — 660. A bed of sand-rock rises at 635 from Grange Chine, and at 800 is very near the 



top of the cliff. 

 790, is nearly the place of a chasm in the cliff, perhaps Jackman's Chine ? 

 1500. The middle point of Chilton Chine. Hence to Bull-rock-ledge, reddish and variegated 



marly sand and clay appear to form the shore. 



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