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feet above this bed of marie, but not one was discoverable below it. 
Between this and a similar bed of marie nine or ten feet beneath it, 
are to be seen many of those thin beds of organic remains, which 
are characteristic of the stratum on which the chalk with few flints 
reposes. Both these beds of marie are also seen in the most ele- 
vated part of the low cliff, between Shakspeare’s cliff and the town 
of Dover. 
CHALK WITHOUT FLINTS. 
I. Stratum containing numerous thin beds of Organic Remains . 
This stratum, both internally and after exposure, is yellowish and 
without flints ; for not one was visible in it, either in the cliff, or 
in the numerous masses lying at its base : in hardness, it exceeds the 
chalk with interspersed flints. 
The low cliff immediately contiguous to Dover on the west, con- 
sists wholly of the chalk of this stratum, except the summit of its 
most elevated part, which consists of the chalk with few flints $ 
but in this place it does not so decidedly appear to consist of a num- 
ber of thin beds of organic remains, as it does after rising from the 
beach at Shakspeare’s cliff ; nevertheless it manifestly consists of a 
vast accumulation of organic exuvise. This stratum may be traced 
without interruption for nearly four miles ; but the summit of the 
cliff between Dover and Folkstone, for the tatter half of the way, 
quite to its termination near the signal house above the latter place, 
decidedly belongs to the chalk with few flints : a close examination 
of it discovers here and there a few interspersed flints, and a single 
bed of them is visible about 40 feet below the summit, just half way 
between the two places. Wherever a path is practicable, the cliff 
