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THE GEOLOGIST. 
One might fancy, as the town is placed to the i-ight of the dark line 
on the map, which marks the position of the Red Chalk, that Louth 
could have nothing to do with the latter. But a friend who made some 
inquiries for me on the spot has forwarded two specimens, and says 
he saw them taken out of a chalk-pit at that town. They ran in 
veins, he wi'ites, the lighter coloured over the darker, and were dug 
at no great distance below the surface. The bright red piece was 
just above where the springs arise — facts which correspond with 
evidence in other places. 
As the inclination of the plane of the strata is small, and rising 
towards the south-west (the direction of the strata being north-west), 
it is easily comprehended that the Red Chalk may exist under Louth, 
and yet not appear at the surface of the ground until at some distance 
to the west of the town. 
At Brickhill, near Harrington, the seam also has been met with ; 
a specimen of it can be seen in the Museum of the Geological Society 
of London. This last and those from Louth differ little in appearance 
or character from what may be obtained at the Speeton beds. 
I have no more to say about Lincolnshire, except that, according to 
the authority of geological maps, the Red Chalk of that county sinks 
and disappears below the marsh-lands, a few milfes before reaching 
the sea. 
And now it is time to cross the Wash, that great sea-bay, and land 
at Hunstanton, a littl« village on the north-western coast of Norfolk. 
As I am addressing a com[>any of working geologists, I ought perhaps 
to say how in practice the locality cau be arrived at, for it is not 
quite so easy to reach a place in reality as it is to see it on a map. 
To go to Hunstanton, iu the most ready way, a person must first 
reach Lynn ; whence an omnibus, starting in the afternoon, at three 
or four o'clock, from the Lynn station, will convey passengers to the 
village. 
At Hunstanton there are two hotels, and several lodging-houses. 
I should recommend the Le Strange Arms, as being an old-fashioned 
comfortable inn, and nearer than the other to the section we are in 
quest of Perhaps it may be thought, "Why dwell so much upon 
Hunstanton — its hotel— and its omnibus 1 I do so because at that 
village there is a most excellent natural section of the Red Chalk, 
