6 PEOr. T. G. BONNEY AND EEV. E. HILL ON THE [Feb. I90I, 



Beneath it on the top of the second clay, we occasionally find a 

 layer ot grit and stones, sometimes subangular, once or twice asso- 

 ciated with a boulder a couple of feet in diameter. This layer 

 general y is only a very few inches thick, and closely resembles the 

 material of the present beach. In one or two of the recesses we 

 tound traces of a similar layer between the bedded sand and the 

 clay beneath it. Small stones sometimes occur in the sands which 

 occupy the trough, but chiefly if not wholly in the more clayey 

 layers; and m one section a band of very dark laminated clay is 

 present, with numerous small pebbles of chalk, flint etc This 

 ^^^^ ^l^^^^ev jagged in outline, generally about 3 or 4 inches 

 thick, but occasionally more than a foot: these irregularities being 

 probably due to fracture and packing during subsidence. But the 

 deposits m the ' Contorted Drift " seem to show greater variability 

 than the more uniform masses beneath them. In one place two of 

 these recesses are near together, parted only by a ' gable ' of the 

 lower clay ; and m another, a low mound of this material apparently 

 rises up for some 3 yards above the shore, interrupting the ' Contorted 

 Drifts near the western end of a trough. But this possibly may not 

 be zn situ The larger number of these recesses are to the west of 

 the track leading down from the Wilhelmshohe restaurant, but three 

 or four lie on the other side of it. 



More details could be added, but enough, we think, has been said 

 Thp^^//9^ t^%P"°^iP^l f^^tures of these interesting sections, 

 ihe sand (2) clearly overhes the main mass of clay, and the clay 

 (3) comes above it. But whether these correspond with the sandy 

 band and the upper clay in the extensive sections to the west is not 

 easily detemmed : on the whole we are inclined to suppose them 

 represented by the more sandy part of the main mass 1) in these 

 eastern sections and regard (2) & (3) as more recent, though 

 underlying the ' Contorted Drift.' This probably once extended over 

 the whole area, whence it has been generally removed by denudation.. 



fh^ ?W ""^Z I ' .*''"^^' ^'""^'^ • ^* «^^^^d t^ ^« impossible 

 PhTv .. ^v^^i. i' ""^^^^'J ''^^^'^^' excavated in the lower boulder- 

 clay m which the beds 2, 3, etc. had been afterwards deposited. 



&7 . ^ ^^" tY'J^ ^ "^^ ^^' contortions of the overlying 

 11 f-r 'i^ r^'?' ^"'""^'"' ^'^''' ^^ ^ ^i^ilar structure arf 

 perceptible indicate that the mass as a whole has been let down 

 and probably puckered by unequal movements or by packing during 

 that process Of faulting in the ordinary sense of the term we found 

 fr^. -t'l ^^^/!f°^^««^^ tlia^' hypothesis as improbable. Still more 

 impossib e did It seem to attribute the relations of the Drifts to the 



.Wf ~ ?^' P^^"^^^"^' ^^ dragging-of an ice-sheet. The 



structure would more naturally be produced by the gradual removal 

 of material which had once supported these beds nearly in an hori- 

 zontal position The Drift, if we rightly understand Prof. Geinitz, is 

 probably very thick, and it rests upon Chalk.^ We can hardly suppose 



cropping out inland near the western end of the Stolteraa. 



