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THE GEOLOGIST. 
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Hythe. 
Sandgate. 
Folkestone. 
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 Eastwear 
Bay, the blue gault forms the ruinous 
promontory of Copt Point. 
The sandfitone 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 cotered 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. 
As we skirt the brow of this high ground, from amidst the yellow- 
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