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fticking in it, but no Shells that I coufd obferve- Above 
this are iikewifc divers Straia^whkh reach to widiin about 
two foot oi the Surface, fome of which are only of fine 
Sand, other fluall Stones and Gravel mixt with fragments 
of Shells, of which I likewife fent you a Specimen^ 
and in others fmall Pebbles are mixt 5 and it is in fome 
of thefe laft mentioned 6Vni/i?5 that the Fojfil Shells are im- 
bedded, which lye promifcuoufly together, I mean the 
Bivalve or Turhmate 5 neither do the Strata s with the 
Shells obferve any order in their lying, being fometimes 
higher and fometimes lower in the Cliff 5 and fometimes 
2 or 3 one above another with other Strata s ofSand^Frag- 
tpeots and Gravel between. Above all thefe is a co- 
vering of common Sandy Earth, which is about 2 foot 
thick, in* which, in fome places, are Veins of a Species 
of Opeocolla-^ tho more tender than Ofieocolta Officma- 
rum^ which is brought from Germany : This I have 
adventured to czW Ofteocolla AngUcana^ it doth incruft 
abdtlt fmall Strings like the Fibres of the Roots of 
Trees^t's of divers magnitudes, and fends forth Branches 
here and there, ibut is fo tender, as not to be gotten 
out of the Earth in any laf^e pieces. Whether like 
thf^German it appears above the Earth, I never could dif- 
cover. 
Before this Cliff, the Shoar, as far as the ebbing of tfoe 
Sea would permit my obfervatioo, was rudely paved with 
Stones, divers of which are vein'd with that fort of Body, 
which by Hdmoftt and other later Naturalifts, is called 
Ludus Paracelf: Of thefe Stones the Inhabitants have a 
tradition/ that they are form'd by the Clay, which tumbling 
down from the Cliff, and being waflied by the flowing 
of the Sea, are in a ftort time converted into Stone 5 
and the ingenious Mr Szlas Tayler in his Mauufcript QL 
leSions of Harwich and Dovercourt, (a Copy of which I 
-x have) thus writes concerning it. The V/afi)ing of thefe 
Cliffs difcovers a hlueifi Clay\ which ttmhling clown ttfon the 
Shmr^ dtho wajljed by the Sea at High-wafer^ within a fwrt 
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