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feeling relating to the spot seems, indeed, to exist almost 
as strong amongst the peasantry of the present day as 
it did ages ago ; our proceedings excited general alarm 
among the lower classes, who expected to see some mani- 
festation of vengeance on the part of the beings believed to 
hold the guard of the tumulus ; and few would have ventured 
out in its neighbourhood after dark. 
ON THE CRAG DEPOSIT AT BRIDLINGTON, AND THE MICRO- 
SCOPIC FOSSILS OCCURRING IN IT. BY H. C. SORBY, 
ESQ., F.R.S., F.G.S., OF SHEFFIELD. 
When I was at Bridlington about seven years ago, 
examining amongst other things the crag deposit there, it 
occurred to me that probably Foraminiferse might be found 
in it. Having suitable sieves with me, I washed some of it, 
and ascertained that they exist in considerable numbers. 
Since, so far as I am aware, no particular account of them 
has ever appeared, I purpose to give, now, a short descrip- 
tion of the manner of their occurrence and how they may 
be obtained. 
The place where the crag was then best exposed, was at 
the bottom of the cliff, somewhat north of the town. It 
appeared to me to be a number of small beds of sand and 
sandy clay amongst the boulder clay of the drift, which 
occurs both below and above the part with shells, also itself 
containing many erratic pebbles, like those in the drift. 
Though some few of the shells are found elsewhere, yet 
they are most numerous about a quarter of a mile north of 
the pier. The section there exhibited, at the bottom, bluish 
grey clay with pebbles of chalk and flint, as well as of other 
rocks transported from a distance, passing upwards into 
similar clay without pebbles. Above this was a very variable 
