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13cneatli the Eocene beds we should no doubt come to tlie Chalk, 
and beneath that — well, perhaps to coal, who knows! If ^Ir. 
Colman would put down a trial shaft I promise him, that if he did 
not get any coal, he should not fail to have the warmest thanks of 
geologists. 
Eow the first thing that strikes us in this section is the enor- 
mous disproportion between those periods of geological time which 
are here represented, and those Avhich are altogether unaccounted 
for. The first hiatus is that between our own times and that of 
the I’oulder Clay. Observe that the I’oulder Clay occupies the top 
of the cliff. It is the latest of the geological records here pre- 
served to us. ISiot only at this point, but over almost the entire 
counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the surface of the land consists 
of one or another of the Glacial deposits or of the older rock.s. 
Wo de.siro to undertake the study of the ancient histoiy of our 
district, and when we open the geological volume wo find the first 
chapters arc missing, and unfortunately the ones we can least spare. 
Wo have, indeed, an occasional patch of clay like that from which 
the famous Lowestoft china was formerly made, and a few sporadic 
masses of gravel capping the high ground, or filling portions of 
the bottom of our valleys, but of the geological records of the 
interval separating our own times from those of the Boulder Clay 
which this district offers— voila tout; except that I should not 
forget that the Yarmouth fishermen sometimes dredge up from the 
bed of the German Ocean the bones and teeth of the Mammoth 
and of the Tichorine Bhinoceros, relics of the time, intermediate 
between the Glacial epoch and our own, when much of the bottom 
of the sea, which now separates us from Holland and Belgium, 
was dry land uniting England to the Continent. It is as if all the 
material we possessed for the construction of a history of Hast 
Anglia since the times of Julius Cresar, were the ruins of the 
Boman camp at Burgh, the old Yarmouth Hutch map, and any 
remains which may still exist of the Corton potterv’’ works. 
Iho formation of Boulder Clay takes us back to that distant 
period, called by geologists the Glacial epoch, when a state of 
things existed in these latitudes similar to that we now find in 
South and Central Greenland, and in part of Spitzbergen, as Avell 
as in the land surrounding the Antarctic Pole. 
At that time the high land of England was enveloped by a 
