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for the preservation of tlie fossils and for their easy caiiiage. AH 

 the fossils are not crtmipled and distorted, and eveiy here and there 

 are perfect Xuculae, fine large Ammonites, often four to six iaches 

 across, Sea<-tirchins, RosteUaria ParJcimonii, Solarium canoideuni, and 

 S. ornatum ; and now and then one meets Tvith the rarer shells, such 

 as Scalaria Clementina, Myfilus, and pretty small Tnrrihtes. 



Passing on to the west side of the town, we find the greensand 

 cliffs attaining a height of alx)nt one hnndi^ed and twenty feet, and 

 capped only by a few outlyiag msty patches of gault, and a sti-eam 



Lign. 15. — Lower Greensand Cliff, on the west side of Folkestone Hai-boar, with capping 

 of Mammaliferous Diift. 



of mortar-like nodules, the weathered remnants of the '"junction- 

 bed," extending for about half a mile beyond the Lees. Even this 

 capping has been denuded out fi'om the site of the Battery, at the 

 back of the Pavilion Hotel, and its place supplied by a deposit of 

 white marl and flint- gi-avel. inosculating with or thinning out under 

 a bed of brick-earth. These deposits — the gi'avel, mai'l, and brick- 

 earth — have no connection with the greensand on which they repose, 

 being altogether of more modem date and different condition, the 

 former containing the remains of mammoth, hippopotamus, hytena, 

 Irish elk, deer, and oxen, and others of the great mammaha. 



