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Mr. William Phillips on the 
This stratum possesses altogether the characters of the chalk with 
few flints, which appears in the same relative position in the cliff 
on the west of Dover. 
About twenty feet below the summit of the eastern of the two 
elevations composing Cape Blanc Nez, run two parallel beds of 
flints, three or four feet apart : between them there is a crevice, 
and another about three feet below the lowest bed of flints. In 
these respects the summit perfectly resembles that of Shakspeare’s 
cliff, and of the still more elevated cliff on the west of it (see p. 25.) 
The chalk of the summit of Blanc Nez is however the whitest of the 
two ; but as, from the roughness of the exposed surface, it mani- 
festly consists chiefly of organic remains, I cannot hesitate to con- 
sider it as analogous to the chalk with interspersed flints, which 
forms the summit of the elevated cliffs next to Dover on the west; 
especially since the crevices left by the falling out of the chalk-marle, 
are the same in number and position in both places (see p. 25), and 
since also another crevice runs a few feet below,, corresponding 
with that noticed at p. 29 as being the boundary between the chalk 
with interspersed flints and that with few flints. It ought, how- 
ever, to be noticed, that the two remarkable crevices which are 
visible near Dover, in the upper part of the chalk with few flints, 
(see p. 29,) are not observable in that of Cape Blanc Nez. 
On comparing the sketch of the cliff on the west of Shakspeare’s 
near Dover, with that of the eastern part of Cape Blanc Nez, it will 
be seen that they are composed of the same varieties of chalk ; and 
on comparing the whole of both sketches, it will be found that the 
three miles of coast, commencing about one mile on the west of 
Sangatte to St. Pot, consist of the same deposits as those which 
constitute the long range of coast between Deal and Folkstone ; 
