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Vol.  49.]  RAISED  BEACHES  AND  ROLLED  STONES  IN  JERSEY. 
A  wide  cutting  passes  through  the  eastern  side  of  South  Hill 
from  the  shore  in  a  more  or  less  northerly  direction,  and  it  is  on 
the  top  of  the  cliff  forming  the  western  side  of  this  cutting  that  the 
raised  beach  is  situated.  It  is  shown  in  a  somewhat  cup-shaped 
section — a  hollow  in  the  rock — with  a  steep  grassy  bank  rising  above 
it  to  the  top  of  the  hill,,  and  it  is  about  11  feet  deep,  and  25  feet 
wide  at  its  upper  part.  This  depression  is  filled  with  well-rounded 
granite-pebbles,  mostly  from  1  or  2  to  6  or  8  inches  in  their  longest 
diameter,  mixed  with  many  much  larger  rounded  stones,  and 
angular  and  subangular  fragments.  In  the  lower  part  the  pebbles 
are  closely  packed  together,  but  higher  up  the  stones  may  perhaps 
he  more  correctly  described  as  thickly  studding  the  brick-clay  which 
fills  up  the  interstices  and  covers  the  whole.  The  height  of  this 
1  beach  ’  is  perhaps  about  120  feet  above  spring-tide  high-water 
mark.  On  the  top  of  the  hill,  some  10  feet  or  more  above  the 
‘  raised  beach,’  the  solid  rock  which  shows  through  the  turf  is  well 
worn,  as  if  it  had  been  long  exposed  to  the  action  of  the  waves. 
On  the  southern  side  of  South  Hill,  at  a  somewhat  lower  level, 
the  top  of  the  cliff  shows  the  section  of  a  depression  about  110  feet 
long,  and  3  or  4  feet  deep,  filled  up  with  brick-clay  resting  partly 
on  the  rock  and  partly  on  rubble,  and  at  one  spot  there  are  one  or 
two  well-rounded  pebbles  at  the  base  of  the  clay. 
On  the  side  of  the  cutting  opposite  the  high  raised  beach,  and 
nearer  the  sea,  perhaps  some  80  yards  from  the  present  shore,  a 
section  of  brick-clay  is  exposed,  about  15  feet  in  thickness,  which 
has  a  band  of  pebbles  running  diagonally  across  it.  This  baud 
begins  low  down  in  the  clay  nearest  the  shore,  and  passes  upwards 
at  an  angle  of  about  40°  until  it  is  lost  in  the  soil  above.  This 
layer  of  pebbles  is  about  8  to  12  inches  thick,  and  the  stones,  which 
are  not  very  closely  packed  together,  are  mostly  flattened,  and  from 
1  to  3  inches  in  their  greatest  length.  There  are  also  some  small 
angular  fragments,  and  one  or  two  rounded  stones,  embedded  in  the 
clay  both  above  and  below  the  layer.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that 
though  the  pebbles  are  nearly  all  pieces  of  the  neighbouring  granite 
and  diorite,  a  certain  number  of  well-rounded  flints  occur  amongst 
them.  Flint-pebbles  are  found  on  the  present  beach  on  the  southern 
and  eastern  coasts  of  the  island,  but  not  in  such  large  proportion  as 
here.  As  there  is  no  Chalk  in  Jersey,  it  has  been  supposed  that  the 
flints  found  on  the  shore  may  have  been  derived  from  the  Cretaceous 
rocks  on  the  opposite  coast  of  France,  or  from  the  waste  of  a  former 
extension  of  this  formation  in  the  direction  of  the  Channel  Islands. 
About  50  yards  to  the  seaward  of  this  section  and  at  a  lower 
level,  the  line  of  rails  which  runs  up  the  cutting  is  carried  through 
the  lower  part  of  the  southern  slope  of  South  Hill.  On  one  side  of 
this  narrow  cutting  there  is  a  section  exposing  a  mass  of  angular 
and  subangular  blocks  of  granite  closely  packed  together,  most  of 
them  1  or  2  feet  in  longest  diameter  ;  over  them  and  amongst  them 
is  the  clay,  and  beneath  them  are  numerous  large,  well-rounded 
pebbles.  The  opposite  side  of  the  cutting  mostly  exposes  massive 
rock — here  diorite — but  some  patches  of  clay  containing  rounded 
