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PHOTOGRAPH. 
At the top, 1. — Red boulder-clay (about 10 feet). 
2. — Drift Gravel, very intermittent. 
3. — Thick greenish or greyish : boulder-clay, full of small 
pebbles but with a few large stones : often showing indis- 
tinct bedding, and appearing to pass into the gravel above 
and below it : fragments of marine shells plentiful in 
places. 
4. — Drift gravel and sand ; not seen on the]^headland, but well 
developed in the cliff near the middle of the bay. 
5. — Fine angular chalky gravel or " wash " (possibly prc-gla- 
cial). 
(j. — Hard flinty chalk. 
Though the beds above the chalk vary considerably both in 
thickness and composition, this section may be taken as a type of 
the geological structure of Flamborough Head. 
I suppose the shape of The Head, — a blunted triangle, 
almost a cone, with its apex pointing due east, is known to 
all who will look on this pictui'e. The cliff-line which forms its 
southern boundary, commencing near Bridlington and running 
east and east -north-east for five miles before the eastermost point 
is reached, pursues throughout a tolerably even course. But as 
soon as the projection is rounded and the coast faces north, a great 
and sudden change takes place, and the cliffs are indented and 
broken to such a degree, that from the Light-houses ( which stand 
on the extremity) to the scene of the photograph, and for a little 
way beyond, — a distance in all of nearly three miles — the shore 
presents one long series of grand coast pictures, and we pass, step 
by step ( where the tide allows), through caves and arches ; into 
bays, and gullies, and nooks of ever-varying outline, with crannies 
and recesses innumerable ; whilst here and there a massive rock- 
pillar stands sentinel-like apart. Add to this a clear and rollicking 
sea, dotted with many sail — one or two large steamers passing, 
no doubt, almost within hail — and occasional glimpses of the bold 
headlands of the coast-line stretching northward to Whitby — and 
you have, I think, as glorious a view as any on our Yorkshire 
coast. 
Where the cliff is thus broken, its height nowhere exceeds 150 
