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and occasional inaminalian remains. No shells occurred, with the 
exception of one valve of Mi/tilus ednlts. This is rather strange, as 
this bed in most instances (East Itiinton, &c.) is crowded with shells. 
Cakes of peat, blue clay, and gravel, representing the Foi-est-bed, 
rested immediately on the bed of clay-pebbles, clearly showing the 
Forest-bed occurs above the Weybourn beds, and not beneath, as 
some Norfolk geologists maintain. Many stools of trees were seen, 
several being from 10 inches to 2 feet across. They were evidently 
not in situ or rooted in their original position, as all the small roots 
were missing, and the larger ones extended but a short distance and 
were much abraded at the ends. Several large trunks occurred, 
seemingly of Fir, one being 25 feet in length, with a diameter of 16 
inches. Others were from 12 to 20 feet long. A rather curious point 
in connection with them was the uniform direction of the trunks, 
viz., the roots to the north and the tops to the soutli. If one could 
ascertain the position they would occupy in drifting down a stream, 
it would prove an easy tivsk to point in which direction the Forest- 
bed river flowed. Many of the large masses of peat contained 
great (quantities of the root-stocks of the Osjnuuda regalis : they 
were much decayed, and very .soft, but 1 obtained some six or seven 
in fair preservation. No other instance has occurred to my know- 
ledge of so many being found together. The following are some of 
the principal mammalian remains obtained : — -Tarsal and carpal 
bones of Elephas, astragalus and calcaneum of Cervus, portion of 
llyama’s jaw, upper molar of E. antiqum, tooth of Ecquus, canine of 
Hippopotamus, tibia joint of 15os, and part of an upper incisor of 
Trogontherium. On the north-west side of Overstrand gangway 
several tree trunks were shown in the base of the clitf, one trunk 
passing upward into the boulder clay, which here cuts down to the 
Forest-bed to the destruction of all intervening deposits. 
Early in October a line section of the Sidestrand Unio-bed about 
300 yards in length was shown, resting directly on the Forest-bed. 
The base consisted of gravel about 18 inches in thickness with 
fragments of Unios, then 4 feet of black mud full of Unios of all 
sizes. Several were extracted whole, but the majority are decayed 
and very soft, and require to be carefully dried and then gelatinized. 
A few fish bones were found, but no mammalian remains, indeed 
the latter are very rare. I have only obtained a caudal vertebra of 
Myotjale moischata from this bed. From a low on the foreshore 
