WILTSHIRE. ON THE RED CHALK OF ENGLAND. 
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better almost than at Sijeetou, aud ditrereut certainly in many- 
respects. 
We will suppose that we have arrived at Hunstanton, and are 
walking towards the shore in front of the Le Strange Arms. A 
veiy few minutes will convey us to the wonderful cliff. I say won- 
derful, not from its height or length ; for at its greatest height, under 
the lighthouse, it is not more than sixty feet ; and it extends little 
more than a mile in length ; but wonderful from its curious colour 
and eeneral effect. 
Liyii. 2. — Hunstanton Clift ^louking to the Novtli). 
The woodcut, copied from a water-colour drawing, made last autumn 
by a friend, will afford an idea of its appearance ; but in it the absence 
of colour, of course, takes away from the beauty of the scene. 
The cliff itself may be divided into five portions : first, White Chalk, 
forty feet thick ; secondly, bright Ked Chalk, four feet ; thirdly, a 
yellow sandy mass, ten feet ; fourthly, a dark brown pebbly stratum, 
forty feet ; and, lastly, twenty feet of a bed almost bluuk. 
These divisions do not run one into the other, as is the case in most 
geological strata, but keep quite distinct. Thus the Red Chalk is as 
clearly separated from the White, as though the one had been covered 
