182 lamplugh : notes on the white chalk of yorkshire. 
8. The King and Queen Rocks. 
The King and Queen Rocks shown in this plate are the largest 
and best known of the isolated rock-pinnacles of the headland. They 
stand in a little recess of the coast under Breil Point, seven hundred 
yards eastward from North Sea Landing. The Queen, the nearer of 
the two, is about sixty yards from the shore at high tide, and the 
King stands fifty yards farther out, at the extreme edge of the low- 
water scars.'" The point of view for this picture is at the top of the 
cliff in the recess, 150 feet above sea level, looking north-eastward. 
The precipice to the right forms part of Breil Point. The whole 
section is composed of the Chalk-with-Flints, but is not far from the 
top of that division where the bedding is less massive than at lower 
horizons. 
9. Selwicks. 
Selwicks, lying immediately to the north of the most easterly 
point of the headland, owes its existence to a fault,! accompanied by 
a contortion of the strata, which at this place intersects the coast 
line. The fault runs east and west and has a downthrow to the north 
of about 70 or 80 feet. We have in this vicinity the junction of the 
Chalk-with-Flints or Middle Chalk with the overlying flintless Upper 
Chalk, and the effect of the fault is to bring down the Upper Chalk 
into the cliff-section on the northern side of Selwicks against the 
harder Chalk-with-Flints which occupies the whole of the cHff on the 
opposite side of the Bay. 
No. 9 is a view of this bay at low-water, the standpoint being on 
the southern side, looking northward. The line of faulting crosses 
the scar in the foreground, approximately along the water-channel 
seen on the right. The nearer cliff, so grandly carved and tunnelled 
by the waves, and the pinnacle standing like a sentinel in front of it, 
are composed of the lowermost layers of the Upper Chalk, with the 
top of the Chalk-with-Flints just reappearing on the shore to the 
eastward of the inlet on the left. In the farther headland, about 
* As named on the old Ordnance map. Some confusion exists locally as 
to which of these rocks is King and which Queen, though collectively their 
names are well-established. The same remark applies to "Adam and Eve " 
in Selwicks Bay (see p. 183). 
f First described in my paper in Proc. Yorksh. Geol. and Polyt. See, 
vol. vii (1880), p. 242. 
