THE GEOLOGIST. 
AUGUST, 18G0. 
GEOLOGICAL L 0 C ALIT I E S.— No. L 
FOLKESTONE. 
By S. J. Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A. 
(Continued from ijarje 207._) 
In our route we shall pass several brick-pits dug into a stiff browia 
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, Succinea ohlonga, 
and Fupa prove it to be, skii'ts the chalk downs for many miles, 
apparently into Surrey. At the time when it i.s extensively dug for 
Lign. 2'). — Bone of Bos pHnngenius. 
brick-making, bones of Bos primigenius, Gorvus clejyJnis, Bos urus, and 
horse are met with. The specimen figured is from one of these pits 
belonging to Mr. Kingsnorth, of Broadmcad. 
In some places, as at Brabourne Lees, this brick-earth inosculates 
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