GRAVESKND. 421 



Ft. in. 



4. The hard chalk 9 o 



5. AStratum of flints.: o i£ 



The flints here also lay quite close together, 



but the pieces of flint were very thin, like small 

 thin tablets. There often lay a couple of such 

 thin bits on one another. 



6. The hard chalk 18 o 



7. A stratum of flints exactly like No. 3. 



8. The hard chalk 4 o 



And who knows how far down, because the 



bottom of the pit prevented me from seeing deeper. 



92 7h 



Note.— In the chalk bed, kritlrvarfen, below No. 3. 



some flints only appeared here and there. 



In another of these large chalk-pits nearer to Gravesend 



the strata were thus : — 



ft. in. 



1. On the top, soil, Svartmylla, about 1 o 



but mingled with chalk, that the colour of this 

 earth was very like bricks. 



2. Chalk 12 o 



3. A stratum of flints, quite horizontal, as if 



they had been designedly laid level o 6 



4. Chalk about 3° ° 



5. [T. II. p. 68.] A stratum of flints, arranged 



in the same way as No. 3 o 6 



6. Chalk 3 o 



7. A bed of flints like the preceding o 6 



8. Chalk one fathom and perhaps much deeper, 

 because the fallen earth prevented me from seeing 

 more 6 o 



53 6 

 Obs. 1. — That these strata of flints consisted only of 



