SEAFOHD CLIFFS. 
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Rolled masses of this substance are frequently 
found on the shore at Brighton, and were formerly 
so abundant as to be used for fuel by the poorer 
inhabitants. * They are prox’incially called strom- 
holo, a corruption of .sfrom-bollen^ stream or tide 
haHs ; the name given them by the Flemings, who 
formerly settled in that town. 
The use of this substance was prohibited, on 
account of the very offensive smell emitted during 
its combustion. It was employed by the late Dr. 
Russell as a fumigation in certain glandular coin- 
plaiuts, and it is said with decided benefit. 
The organic remains found in these dejiosits 
are enumerated in the catalogue : they consist of 
dicotyledonous wood ; impressions of leaves ; a 
coniferous fruit ; shells of the genera Potamides, 
Helix, Cyclas, Cyrena, Cytherea, Ostrea, &c. 
Between Castle Hill and Seaford, a flat alluvial 
tract intervenes, through which the Ouse flows 
into the British Channel. To the north-east of 
this marshy plain, the truncated terminations of 
the Downs are covered with a cap of fawn-coloured 
and greenish sand, with rolled blocks of chalk, and 
flint pebbles. An excavation on the side of the 
hill, near the road leading from Xewhaven to Sea- 
ford, exhibits a good section of these deposits. 
The rolled pebbles and sand occupy about fifteen 
feet of the upper part of the bank, and lie in a 
hollow or basin of chalk rubble ; and wherever the 
chalk is accessible to observation along this margin 
of the Downs, it is invariably in a broken and 
ruinous state. 
* Lee’s History of Lewes and Brighthelmstone, 8vo. 179.5, p. 554. 
