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FILF.Y BAY AND BRIGG. 
BY C. FOX-STRAXGWAYS, F.G.S., OF H.M. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
Plates XLIX.-LVI. 
The series of eight views, which are now published in 
continuation of those given last year of the neighbourhood of 
Flamborough Head and Speeton, serve to show the structure of 
the cliffs at the opposite horn of this extensive bay. The whole 
of the views are taken within a little more than a mile of the town 
of Filey, and illustrate very clearly many of the details of the 
northern promontory of the bay known as the Carr Naze, and the 
remarkable reef of rocks forming Filey Brigg, 
To those who have studied the geology of this fine and 
interesting coast, the illustrations require but little explanation ; 
a short descriptive notice of the rocks may, however, be acceptable 
to others who are not so well acquainted with its intimate structure. 
Filey Brigg and the neighbouring cliffs afford magnificent sections 
of the middle portion of the Jurassic rocks, and of the Boulder 
Clay and other glacial beds by which these are so deeply covered 
along their eastern edge. The Jurassic rocks here shown comprise 
the sandy and calcareous strata of the Middle Oolite which inland 
form that remarkable range of tabular hills stretching from Scar- 
borough to Black Hambleton above Thirsk, where they attain an 
elevation of 1,300 ft. above the level shown in these views. 
Filey Brigg is the eastern extremity of this extensive outcrop, 
and is especially interesting to the geologist from the rocks being 
easily accessible, and from the fact that great alteration takes place 
in their character, just before they are lost beneath the waters of 
the North Sea. 
1. Filey; Town and Bay looking Southward. 
This is a general view of Filey as seen from the cliffs at the 
northern end of the town. The whole of these cliffs, which are here 
a little over 100 ft. in height, and upon the slopes of which the 
