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also occur, and certain parts of the bed contain Moss so perfect, 
that it can l)e washed out and dried in ordinary botanical paper. 
The determined plants are all aquatic. Specimens from this 
locality are better preserved than from any other yet examined. 
Minute winged .seeds of undetermined species are not uncommon. 
'J'lUMiNGH.vM. — Carbonaceous .stony silt, belonging to the Lower 
h'rcshwatcr Led, can 0(ic:vsionally be seen on the foreshore; but the 
locality is dilUcult to hud, no landmarks being visible, except the 
posts of an old groyne which lies .about three hundred and fifty 
yards to the .south-east. Constant land.slips make this part of the 
foreshore very obscure. The bed contains numerous fragments of 
Mo.ss, and .seeds of aquatic plants; Potamorjeton rrinpitu being 
e.specially abundant, and often having llie clusters of fruit in their 
natural position, though the stems ami leaves luave entirely 
disappeared. 
;^[uNDRsr.^'.v. — .South of the ohl .sea-wall, and a foot or two above 
the ordinary beach level, there ai’o small erodeil channels in the 
estu.arine bed.s. Idled up with blue .stony cla}', with abundance of 
.seeds and I'liio/t. M'here thickest, this fresh-water deposit did not 
('xeced eight inehe.s, .so to lind it needs careful so.areli ; but it is .some- 
times conspicuously exposed on a platform of the clays from which 
tlio overlying s.andy beds liave been removed. The thirty or forty 
species of plants obtained contain a large proportion of marsh, as 
distinguished from truly aquatic forms, Imt no forest trees. 
^Vt a quarter of a mile south-e<a.st of the sea-wall, the estuarine 
beds contained several large cakes of peat full of the curious fruit 
of the Water Chestnut {Trapa natenuf ) ; but these arc prob.ably 
now all washed away, as no specimens h.ave been found for several 
years. 
Lacton. — Opposite Ostend Gai) (where there is a brick-kiln ne.ar 
the edge of the cliff) there is hard thick-bedded fresh-water loam and 
lignite at the foot of the beach. This contains m.any cones of the 
.Scotch and Spruce Firs, fruit of Trapa natans, Yew, Alder, Hazel, 
Oak, and numerous atpiatic plants. Diflercnt parts of the bed vary 
very much ; the last I washed being almost unfossiliferous. This 
bed is apparently continued in a thinner bed of lignite, often cut 
out by the Loulder Clay, between Ostend and llappisburgh ; but 
* til is part of the coast is nearly always hidden by beach and blown 
.sand. 
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