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for the preservation of the fossils and for their easy carriage. All 
the fossils ai-e not crumpled and distorted, and every here and there 
are perfect Nuculae, fine large Ammonites, often four to six inches 
across, Sea-urchins, BosteUaria Parlciiisouli, Solarium conoideum, and 
S. ornatum ; and now and then one meets with the rarer shells, such 
as Soalaria Clementina, Mytilus, and pretty small Turrilites. 
Passing on to the west side of the town, we find the greensand 
cliffs attaining a height of about one hundred and twenty feet, and 
ca^jped only by a few outlying rusty patches of gault, and a stream 
Lign, 15. — Lower Greensand Cliff, on the west side of Folkestone Harbour, with capping 
of Mammaliferous Drift. 
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 from 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 tliinning out under 
a bed of brick-earth. These deposits — the gi-avel, marl, and brick- 
earth — have no connection with the greensand on which they repose, 
being altogether of more modem date and diSerent condition, the 
former containing the remains of mammoth, hippopotamus, hyaena, 
Irish elk, deer, and oxen, and others of the great mammalia. 
