THE GEOLOGIST 



IVIARCH, 1860. 



GEOLOGICAL L 0 C A L I T I E S. — NO. I. 



FOLKESTONE. 



(Continued from vol. page 45.) 



By S. J. IVLvcKiE, F.G.S., F.S.A. 



Slowly the calm sea ebbs. As the pulse of the great ocean beats, 

 its glassy ribbon-waves flow swellingly along in long thin lines, 

 and then drain rapidly away. Every now and then, with higher 

 swelling motion, one wavelet ripples further in, leaving us doubtful 

 for a moment of the tide's recess. But gently, surely are those 

 slippery rocks unveiled, and on their smooth and purple flats the 

 glittering fossils lie. 



There, in their radiant iridescence in scores are pearly Ammonites. 

 A. lautus, A. sjplendens, A, auritus, A. tuherculatuSj and the little 



Lign. 3. — Ammonites Laiitus. From the Gault. 



ribbed and everywhere bestrewn A. varicosus. 



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