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This landslip, due to springs, had produced an undercliff and 

 fissured the ground in the neighbourhood, reminding one on a 

 small scale of some of the cliffs on the south of England. 

 Superficial deposits consisting of rubble overlaid by brick 

 earth occur on the north-west and also on the east side of the 

 excavation. Their extreme depth is about 8 feet. The frag- 

 ments at the base of each of these deposits are large, their 

 longer axes are generally horizontal, and thej are more or less 

 arranged in layers. The surface of the underlying disinte- 

 grated rock is smooth and well defined. From the similarity 

 of the two deposits it is probable there was a buried channel 

 running across the surface now excavated. 



3. — Vale Castle. 



Mr. Hardy, manager of Messrs. Mowlem's quarries, 

 reports that an old beach was found in opening the quarry 

 south of Vale Castle. It lay under 10 feet of rubbish (by 

 which term probably head is meant) and about 50 feet from 

 the present beach. Its level would probably be about 25 feet 

 above mean tide. 



4. — Mont diet. 



This is one of the best spots in the island for old beaches. 

 The quarries, though small, are numerous, and almost every 

 one offers an interesting section. In some the old beach is 

 mixed up with large angular blocks, many of which are disin- 

 tegrated. Some of the rounded pebbles are over two feet in 

 diameter. The arrangement shows little or no signs of strati- 

 fication. 



5. — Mont Saint. 



In a quarry near the old waterworks pumping station, 

 pebbles, chiefly of porphyritic gneiss, were found at the base 

 of the head. They were unequivocably undisturbed and 

 point to a submergence anterior to or coincident with the 

 formation of the head, not perhaps greater, however, than 

 that which has produced the beach at Les Rouvets, the high- 

 est hitherto found in the island. 



6.— UEree. 



The raised beaches in this part of the coast are well 

 known. They are overlaid by head, which in some places is 

 capped by another layer of pebbles, probably a modern storm 

 beach. In other places the layer immediately under the soil 

 contains scattered pebbles, some flint flakes, pieces of pottery 

 and lumps of baked clay showing impressions of fingers. In 

 all these respects this part of the coast resembles Richmond. 



