THE GEOLOGIST 
JUNE, 1860. 
GEOLOGICAL L 0 C A L I T I E S . — N 0. I. 
rOLKESTONE. 
By S. J. Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A. 
(Contamecl from page 131.^ 
Where now is that great funereal mass ? Where now that two 
thousand feet of ocean mud and sand ? All round the rim of the 
great Wealden area the basset-edges of that thick mass crop out, 
bearing on their cliff-Kke downs patches of red loam, gravel and 
round flint-pebbles — remnants that mark the ravages of time and 
physical forces upon the rock-beds of yet another age, in which that 
great Cretaceous mass was slowly raised, bearing as it were on its 
shoulders the ever-forming ooze, filled with the relics of other inter- 
vening forms of life that reigned in that vast interval between the 
Secondary period and our own. 
The story, then, is not half told ; and we must not pause at the 
simple piling by the tides and sea-currents of the more than thou- 
sand feet of greensand, gault, and chalk, and the Tertiary sands and 
clays on these, but we must read on in the record-book that Nature 
keeps, and glean other facts and other scenes from its stony pages. 
Slowly was the great Cretaceous mass heaved by some internal 
power into a giant dome, some forty miles across. Slowly as the 
intumescence of this vast mound increased and raised the upper 
beds, the waves of the ever-active sea cut them into cliffs, and sliced 
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