386 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



ft. in. 



7. A dark brick-coloured or brownish clay. 

 [T. II. p. 21. J It lay in some places imme- 

 diately over the chalk ; in other places lay the 

 sand, No. 6, next above the chalk o 4 



8. Krita. Chalk pebbles. This was the rarest 

 bed we ever saw in any sand pit. It was mostly 

 chalk, but nevertheless, mixed enough with small 

 Pebblestones. Several pieces of chalk were ex- 

 ternally quite smooth, shaped oval or round, and 

 had the same appearance, figur, as Pebblestone, 

 but when they were broken asunder they consisted 

 of bare chalk. This bed was not of the same 

 thickness throughout, but thinned out towards 

 both sides till it was entirely lost 1 3 



9. A brick-coloured coarser sand, much mixed 



with Pebblestones 6 o 



10. Chalk mixed with fine light sand, small 

 Pebblestones, together with a number of broken 

 mussel and snail shells 1 ft. 6 in. to o 6 



11. A quite fine light sand passing to yellow, 

 free from all foreign admixtures (heterogeneis), 4 

 feet thick, and who knows how far down ? because 

 the fallen gravel, sand, &c, prevented us from 

 seeing farther down. 



Obs. — That the thickness of one and all of these beds 

 is not uniform, but sometimes thick, sometimes thin, 

 sometimes entirely lost, as though someone had in former 

 times tipped these strata out of a wheelbarrow, which 

 can all be ascribed to varying directions of the currents, 

 and the unequal movement of the waves, storms, &c. 



From this hill it may be 1 or i^- musket shot to the 

 nearest Chalk pit, kritgrop, whose sides consist of bare 

 chalk, and which is 12 or more fathoms deep, so that 

 one can thus be sure that the whole of this [T. II. p. 22] 



