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1066. At this point a few regular beds of limestone, six to nine inches in thickness, composed 

 in a great measure of Cyclades, and alternating with shale abounding in Cypris, are dug out of 

 the cliff to be burnt for lime. 

 1076. Here beds of reddish clay or marly sand, (like those whicli occur below the Weald Clay on 

 the coast from Atherfield to Brook Chine,) make their appearance, and occupy the shore to 

 about 1850, where hlue clay and shale are found again*. 

 1100. Shore much obscured by the fallen ruins of the strata. 

 1200. In the remoter cliff, beds of dark bluish shale are seen, above the reddish clay. 



l^oo 1224. Very red clay on the shore. 



1276. A bed of reddish and variegated sandy clay rises, evidently in situ ; and thence to 1500, 

 all the nearer and lower part of the cliff is composed of it, in ruins. Above, in the more distant 

 cliff, is the blue clay of the Wealds. 

 1450. Reddish and variegated clay appear in situ on the shore. 

 1500. A bed of sand-rock of a yellowish grey colour rises. Immediately over it, at 1530, is 



dark mottled clay, with much pyrites and coal. 

 [1600 — 1850. An under cliff on the immediate shore.] 

 1630. A o'roup of beds of sand-rock rises, about 10 feet thick. 

 1710. Thin beds of sand, with lignite, on the shore in the under cliff. In the remoter cliff is a 



small chasm or chine at the top onlyf. 

 1886. Bluish beds of slaty clay again rise on the shore, in which Cypris Valdensis occurs abun- 

 dantly. Strata hence to the next Chine much contorted. 

 1980. A small opening or chasm, called *' Twenty-acres Chine," on the east of which the cliff is 

 about 40 feet high. At the upper part, immediately below the diluvium, are beds of bluish 

 shale in situ. 



[At the top, all along the cliff, from about 1850 to Brook Chine, is a coating of diluvial 

 loam and gravel of a very red colour, and 10 or 15 feet thick. 



All the strata in the cliffs hereabouts, from 2000 onwards, rise towards the south-east. 

 They are visible also very distinctly on the shore beneath high-water mark. Compare these 

 with the strata on the west of Hastings (80.) to (84.).] 

 2073. A strong band of sand-rock, 4 feet thick ; thin shale 2 feet below. 

 2090. A bed of iron ore, about six inches thick, with Paludinae. 

 2100. Sand-iock 6 feet thick ; false stratification remarkable. 

 2140. Stony bands, in shale, with Paludina elongata. 

 2173 — 2185. A strong band of firm sand-rock, about 4 feet thick rises ; nodules of grit at the 



lower part, immediately above the dark red clay. 

 2190. Dark reddish clay, apparently continued to 2400. 



* The weather was so bad during my examination of this part of the coast, that it was out of 

 my power to ascertain the cause of this recurrence of the Weald-Clay, after the appearance of the 

 sands and variegated marl. It may be no more than the effect of subsidence ; and the second mass 

 of clay, the beds of which are contorted, may have fallen from the heights above ; the remoter 

 undisturbed cliffs consisting apparently of sand at the bottom, and at the top of blue clay and shale. 

 But, on the other hand, the existence of one or more faults might be expected in this part of 

 the island ; for it is not probable that the great mass of strata, which are nearly vertical m 

 the central range, should return so soon to the slight inclination in an opposite direction, which 

 they exhibit on the south, without the formation of cracks. The question is locally interesting, 

 but doss not affect the general order and proportion of the formations. 



t This remote cliff was not examined, for the reason given in the last note. 



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