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been doubted, had not a bed of tlie slielly bivalve 
limestone of Ashburnham, been found lying ujion 
it, as will be ])articiilarly described in our account 
of the strata at Pounceford. 
STRATA AROUND HASTINGS. 
We have already remarked, that the cliffs ex- 
tending along the Sussex coast, from Bexhill to 
Winchelsea, present the most illustrative section of 
the Hastings strata, in England. • At Bexhill, the 
Ilorsted sand, sandstone, clay, &c., rise into a cliff 
which forms the hill on which that watering-place 
is situated. Near Bulverhithe, sand and sandstone, 
in thin laminm, alternating with beds more or less 
argillaceous, form an irregular line of cliffs. 
Saint Leonard’s near Hastings . — The immense 
excavations, and removal of the cliffs, occasioned by 
the erection of the buildings and terraces of this 
new town, have exposed many interesting sections 
of the strata. Immediately behind the causeway, 
near the western entrance of the town, the blue 
calciferous grit of Hollington, is quarried half-way 
up the cliff. The grit lies beneath beds of fawn- 
coloured sandstone ; the latter, though very friable, 
is in some parts sufficiently compact for building. 
In certain jilaces a coarse grit occurs in layers of 
from one to a few inches in thickness, between the 
blue limestone ; it contains immense numbers of 
small teeth, and scales of fishes, minute pebbles of 
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