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brooks run to the Bain and 

 Steeping. The true, or con- 

 tinuous, scarp of the Wold ceas- 

 ing about Castor, the hrow of 

 the Wold is continued thence 

 south-south-east by a lofty 

 ridge of chalk that is denu- 

 ded on the east or Wold side, 

 as well as on the west, so as to 

 expose the Subcretaceous series 

 on either side of it, that on the 

 east forming inliers. Now the 

 chalk of this ridge (or more pre- 

 cisely, of a spur of it) fits on, 

 as it were, to the Glacial clay 

 of these ranges ; and the an- 

 nexed section (fig. 10) carried 

 along the range and through the 

 junction, will show the way in 

 which this occurs, and how the 

 Glacial clay is essentially to 

 be regarded as having formed 

 one body with the older strata 

 presented to the action of the 

 Postglacial denudation, just as 

 a mosaic of inlaid woods would 

 present one substance of various 

 material to the action of a 

 grooving-plane. 



It seems clear from this fea- 

 ture that the form and direc- 

 tion of the ridge which, with 

 the AVold-edge, constitutes the 

 trough of the Steeping vaUey 

 are not wholly dependent on the 

 direction of the Subcretaceous 

 outcrop, which, in the part 

 traversed by fig. 9, appears to 

 pass directly across it at the 

 Heneage Arms Inn ; and that 

 it is the Postglacial denudation 

 alone to which the direction of 

 this ridge is due. But this 

 ridge is an actual continuation 

 of the physical feature pre- 

 sented by the chalk- scarp ; and 

 the trough which it forms 

 with the other range, and which 

 is occupied by the upper part 

 of the Bain and by the Steep- 



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