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LAMPLUGH : GLACIAL SECTIONS. 
I should also like to include in the series some account of 
various exposures of the Neocomian Clays and accompanying- 
strata on the beach at Speeton which I have examined, and which 
might add to the knowledge of those beds. 
Some of the sections I shall describe have a present value ; 
others may be only of future importance ; but all, I hope, will be 
found useful when the closer and more searching elucidation of 
our Yorkshire drifts — without which the task of correlating them 
with those elsewhere is full of difficulty and doubt— shall be at- 
tempted. 
SECTION. No. 1. — The Cliff Section now hidden behind the new 
sea wall opposite the Alexandra Hotel. 
SECTION No. 2. — The Cliff Section from the end of the defences, 
100 yards north of No. 1 to Sands Lane ; undergoing con- 
stant change owing to rapid inroads of the sea. 
Introduction, — Section No. 1 had long been hidden by wooden 
defences, but these having been broken through in several places, 
partly by the slipping cliff behind, partly by the stormy sea in 
front, were removed by the local authorities in the autumn of 
1880, and were replaced last spring by a more substantial con- 
crete wall ; which now again hides the whole section, except 
about eight feet at the top. During the interval between the 
removal of the old defences and the erection of the new, there 
occurred a stormy period, during which the slips and rubbish that 
obscured the section were almost entirely removed and the cliff- 
line laid clean and bare. During the progress of the works almost 
every foot of the section was made clear,* and the result thus 
obtained is represented on a natural scale in Fig. 1. It extends 
from the road to the beach known as 1 Sands Cut,' northwardf to 
* Both this and the following section have been worked in bit by bit, 
as the different parts became clear. At no one time was the whole so clear 
as here shown. 
t I have throughout described the beds from south to north, so that 
words signifying direction or distance refer northward unless otherwise 
stated. 
