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having lost all reckoning ami not being able to see a cables-length 
ahead, had already taken to the rigging when the vessel struck ; 
and one, Nicholas Williams, who was above the others, was flung 
ofl into the sea by the shock. He lost consciousness, but was no 
doubt carried directly ashore. When he gained his feet and looked 
towards the ship, he saw that lier masts had gone over the side, and 
her hull also immediately broke up, and disappeared. Of the rest of 
the crew he saw nothing. He was much bruised and exhausted, but 
made his way up the cliff and reached a farm house not far inland, 
carrying the first and only news of the disaster. 
A little later in the day, the large collier steamer. Black Dia- 
mond^ went ashore three miles further south. Her crew of sixteen 
were saved by the coast guards by means of the rocket-lines. 
Such is an oft repeated chapter in the history of these pleasant 
cliffs. 
ON SOME SECTIONS EXPOSED DURING THE FORMATION OF 
THE LINE OF RAILWAY BETWEEN UPTON AND KIRK 
SMEATON. BY JAMES W. DAVIS, F.G.S. 
The new line of railway at present iu course of construction 
between Hull and Barnsley has exposed many sections of consider- 
able geological interest. Amongst the most interesting is an 
exposure in the cuttings and tunnel near Kirk Smeaton, showing 
the junction of the coal measures with the superimposed magnes- 
ian limestone. The number of sections exhibiting the same 
arrangement are not very numerous. An instance occurs at 
Conisborough Castle where an outher of sandstone forms a hill 
which is covered with Permian Limestone on which the castle is 
built. At Bramham Park, Knaresboiough, and some other places, 
similar sections occur. In some sections the limestone rests on 
sandstone, and in others, un members of the coal measure series, 
