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DESCRIPTION OF PHOTOGRAPH OF BOULDER CLAY CLIFFS, CARR NAZE, 
FILEY. BY REV. E. MAULE COLE, M.A., F.G.S. 
I. General Description of the Locality. 
Filey Bay is well-known to tourists and to most geologists. In 
point of scenery it is one of the most beautiful, if not the most 
beautiful, bay on the Yorkshire Coast. Its almost unrivalled sands 
extend for a distance of upwards of four miles, from Carr Naze on 
the north to the celebrated Speeton Clays on the south. Looking 
seawards, the eye rests with admiration, on the right, on the magnifi- 
cent vertical wall of chalk forming the cliffs of Speeton and Buckton, 
four hundred feet in height, and extending, with diminishing altitude, 
to the North Landing at Flamborough Head; whilst on the left is 
seen the remarkable spur, running out to sea for half-a-mile, com- 
monly known to visitors as Filey Brigg, which protects the bay from 
north-easterly gales. This spur is continued outwards as a submarine 
ridge for another mile, to a buoy with a bell attached, which does 
not appear to have been always successful in preventing shipwreck on 
the Brigg. Rather more than half of the western portion of the 
ridge of Oolitic rocks is covered with a thick deposit of Boulder Clay, 
rising to a height of nearly one hundred feet, forming the promontory 
known as Carr Naze. Originally, no doubt, the Boulder Clay 
extended much farther seawards and covered a larger portion of the 
ridge of rock, but the waves and the rain combined have reduced it 
to its present moderate dimensions. In historic times the Romans 
are credited with having used Filey Brigg as a landing place, but 
whether this was so, which is much to be doubted, or not, there is no 
doubt that the old Norsemen had an attraction for it, for their nomen- 
clature has been distinctly preserved. The headland is called Carr 
Naze, which, under the name of Nses, our " Ness " or " Naze," is 
one of the most common place-names in Norway; whilst the word 
Brigg, commonly and properly spelt with two g's, has nothing to do 
with the Yorkshire dialectic " brig " for " bridge," but is the Nor- 
wegian " Bryggr " = "a quay, or landing-stage," as seen at Bergen 
at the present day. 
