Seaside Resorts {Bridlington and Filey) 1 2 7 



in the presence or absence of flints. At Brighton the chalk 

 is soft (Upper Chalk) and the flints numerous, thus the chalk 

 gets washed away and the flints are left on the beach. At 

 Bridlington the chalk is hard (Lower Chalk) and flints are 

 almost absent, and hence it comes that the chalk itself, with- 

 standing the action of the waves, becomes rounded into pebbles 

 and cobble-stones, such as are now seen on the beach. 



The chalk cliff itself at Bridlington is not to be seen until 

 you have walked northwards from the town a mile and a half. 

 If at any place short of this you climb the cliff, you have 

 to ascend by a clay path, very dirty and slippery in wet 

 weather. It is glacial clay, and was deposited where it now 

 lies at a time when this part of England much resembled the 

 condition of Greenland at the present time. If you doubt 

 this, dig out of this clay-cliff half a dozen of the largest and 

 hardest fragments of stone that you can find. One or more 

 of them will almost certainly show a smoothed surface with 

 scratches. The Bridlington shore at this spot is covered with 

 seaweeds, chiefly of the brown kinds, and many of these are 

 in turn covered by colonies of Bryozoa. Some of these show 

 most beautiful patterns. Here, too, may be picked up in 

 plenty the sea-mats (Flustra) and beautiful specimens of 

 encrusting sponges and alcyonarian polyps. 



Onwards from Bridlington to the Head the cliff is of chalk. 

 Flamborough Head in Yorkshire pairs off with Beachy Head 

 in Sussex ; each is a short but lofty promontory of chalk, 

 broken off so as to form a perpendicular cliff. 



Filey. 



Filey consists of two towns, the old and the new, both 

 built on glacial clay, and with deep ravines separating them. 

 These ravines are now well clothed with wood, but the 

 observer may note that nowhere do they present anything 

 that he would call " rock." Their banks are clay. As is 

 now almost invariable at popular seaside places, the cliffs 

 close beneath the town are enclosed and concealed by gardens. 



