THE GEOLOGIST. 



AUGUST, 1860. 



GEOLOGICAL L 0 C ALIT I E S.— No. L 

 FOLKESTONE. 

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



(Continued from ;p age 207.) 



In our route we sliall pass several brick-pits dug into a stiff brown 

 clay or ordinary brick-earth, which must in no way be mistaken for 

 gault, as this fresh- water or marshy stratum, for such the abundance 

 in its lower part of the small white shells of Helix, Sttccinea oUonga, 

 and Pujoa prove it to be, skirts the chalk downs for many miles, 

 apparently into Surrey. At the time when it is extensively dug for 



Lign. 20.— Bone of Bos jprimigeniiis. 



brick -making, bones of Bos primigenius, Gervus eleplius, Bos iirus, and 

 horse are met with. The specimen figured is from one of these pits 

 belonging to Mr. Kingsnorth, of Broadmead. 



In some places, as at Brabourne Lees, this brick-earth inosculates 



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