542 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [June 8, 
those found on a modern sea-beach.” A somewhat similar gravel of 
rounded flints of considerable size is also noticed by Mr. Bristow as 
occurring in the valley of King’s quay, between Ryde and Cowes. 
The mass of shingle-grayel at the Foreland thins suddenly to- 
wards the south, and is overlain by 36 feet of brick-earth containing 
a few seams of small angular flints, which thins rather abruptly 
to 6 or 8 feet, and caps the edges of the Eocene beds nearly to the 
chalk range, reaching a height of 100 feet above the sea. A similar 
brick-earth, with more or less of angular flints, appears at heights up 
to 100 feet at many points over the Bembridge peninsula. At a 
point marked on the section (fig. 12), in the brick-earth a little to 
the south of the thick mass, I found a flint implement of the oval 
type. It lay within a few feet of the top of the cliff, or rather of 
the broken slope of marl, which at that point reaches 85 feet above 
the mean sea-level. It was with a few other flints which had 
recently become detached from the brick-earth, of which the imple- 
ment still bore traces. Unlike the great majority of those from the 
gravel of the Hampshire coast, it is perfectly sharp in the angles of 
the chippings. 
The brick-earth, where it thins out over the thick mass of shingle- 
gravel, is eroded and overlain by a drab-coloured loam, which caps 
the shingle-gravel throughout, and extends partly over the other 
deposits to be noticed further on. A little to the north of the Coast- 
Guard Station, where the cliff loses height, the deep red-brown shingle- 
gravel is overlain by a white shingle, the junction being slightly 
irregular, and dipping about 3° northwards. In a short distance a 
peat-bed appears beneath a more clayey gravel, which takes the 
place of the white shingle ; just beyond, a bed of brick-earth is 
interstratified in the gravel, and about a quarter of a mile from the 
first peat-bed another and larger one occurs. The two deposits are 
so much alike in character and situation, as to render it probable 
that the same bed is seen at two points. At a few feet above high- 
water mark the Bembridge marl is covered by a few inches of dark 
grey clay with black pebbles, on which the peat-bed lies, and is 
covered by 6 inches of grey clay, succeeded by a red clayey sand pass- 
ing up into a clayey pebbly gravel. The peat-bed does not much ex- 
ceed a foot in thickness ; it isdescribed by Mr. Godwin-Austen, who 
examined it with Professor E. Forbes, as having the usual charac- 
teristics of accumulations of vegetable matter in damp situations, and 
containing the remains of large trees, hazel-nuts, and beetles*. 
The top of the cliff where the peat-beds are is less than 25 feet above 
the mean sea-level, and the gravel is much more clayey than the 
pebble-gravel proper, and confused in the bedding. Beyond the 
second peat-bed, towards Bembridge, the cliff again rises, and the 
gravel is again evenly stratified clean shingle. 
In this section the shingle-gravel is clearly the oldest, and at the 
time of its accumulation the highest part must have been near the 
sea-level. It may with probability be looked upon as the equivalent 
* Quart, Journ, Geol. Soc. vol. xi. p. 116. 
