An Excursion to the Crag District. 39 



handful of sharks' teeth, two fossil crabs, and a very fine 

 corkscrew coprolite, the best specimen I ever remember to 

 have seen. These he presented to ns. 



The first pit we worked at was in the Red Crag. Here we 

 obtained many perfect shells of Natica, Pecten, Pectunculus, 

 Fusus, etc. Then to a Coralline Crag*-pit, where we were told 

 Mr. Searles Wood obtained his small shells. 



Our guide proposed to send us up a sack of this per rail, 

 to pick over at home at our leisure. I am sorry I declined 

 the offer, as I don't doubt but it would well repay the trouble 

 of sifting. The minute forms of Bryozoa,* of which it seems 

 almost entirely composed, were very beautiful, and we picked 

 out a good number, also many small shells of Cerithum, 

 Turritella, and Scalaria, Fissurella and Galyptrcea. 



At a larger pit, further on, also in the Coralline Crag, we 

 obtained innumerable Pectens, and specimens of Gardita senilis 

 and scalaris ,Astarte sulcata, gracilis, and Omalii, Gyprina rustica 

 and Islandica, the latter in a regular bed around the pit, and 

 higher up a band of Terebratula grandis, of which we procured 

 several fine detached valves, and two small entire pairs, also a 

 very good specimen of a sea-urchin (Temnechinus) , and many 

 other additions to our scrip. 



The Crag is often very much disturbed, and in one pit we 

 visited we saw the Red and Coralline Crag mixed tog-ether in 

 most charming confusion. 



Our load of specimens now became formidable, and the 

 prospect of a heavy march caused us to hurry away from this 

 grand locality rather faster than either of us desired ; but we 

 had planned to reach Orford that night, if possible ; so we 

 contented ourselves with securing our present acquisitions 

 safely. 



Our obliging guide now volunteered to drive us half way 

 to Orford, and we gladly accepted his offer. We rode across 

 Sutton Heath and Hollesley Common, between plantations 

 and down green lanes, till we pulled up at a neat road-side 

 inn, "The Butley Oyster," where we halted, dismissed our 

 cozy little vehicle and white horse, and after a hasty meat-tea, 

 resumed our knapsacks and crag-shells. 



Had it been early day, instead of twilight dim, we should 

 haVe been tempted to halt and turn aside to look at many a 

 likely pit marked on our Ordnance map ; but we had five miles 

 of turnpike before us, and a heavy lot of fossils to carry by 

 turns, and our knapsacks likewise; the road, however, was 

 good, and the evening clear. 



After leaving the village of Chillesford (where the Norwich 



* See Mr. Busk's interesting monograph on the crag Polyzoa, Pal. Trans. 

 1859. 



