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From "Walmer, the "white cliffs of Albion," so conspicuous here 

 for their numerous and regular bands of flints, gradually rise towards 

 Dover, whose far-famed castle stands on a mountain mass of micro- 

 scopic shells, overlooking the red-roofed 

 tenements of that ancient port, winding 

 along the deep valley which at this point 

 cuts abruptly through the strata. 



The opposite hill is furrowed in its en- 

 tire extent with the trenches of the citadel, 

 and at the foot of its steep cliff is the long 

 and narrow street which formerly, when 

 the town was walled, led to the Snare- 

 gate. 



On the western side of the harbour the 

 bold front of Shakespeare's Cliff forms the 

 commencement of a splendid range of 

 cliffs, which rise to a height of nearly six 

 hundred feet, the fallen masses of which 

 constitute a picturesque and romantic un- 

 dercliff, carpeted by a short crisp herbage, 

 and abounding in beautiful plants that 

 furnish subsistence to many of the rarest 

 British insects. 

 Western Heights. On the shore, a narrow seam of dark 

 greensand represents the "firestone" of 

 Godstone and Eeigate ; and gradually 

 rising from the flat strand of East wear 

 Bay, the blue gault forms the ruinous 

 promontory of Copt Point. 



The sandstone cliffs at Folkestone — 

 more rugged and still more picturesque, 

 though less singular in character than the 

 sheer white masses we have just passed by 

 — are covered by white marl and ochre- 

 ous gravel, containing hundreds of the 

 bones of extinct mammals, mammoths and 

 hippopotami, savage hyaenas and gigantic 

 deer and oxen ; while above and beside them are buried the rude 

 urns, rusted weapons, and mortal relics of our Saxon ancestors. 

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