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Chalk Cliffs near Dover . 
Although the stratification is every where visible in a greater or less 
degree, it is best observed by tracing the junction of the chalk 
without flints, with the superincumbent bed of organic remains. 
This is visible with little interruption for five miles from the signal 
house above Folkstone to the foot of Shakspeare’s Cliff, in which 
distance it dips only about 300 feet, in the direction of N.E. by N. 
Proceeding from St. Margaret’s Bay, the beds of flint appear to 
have nearly the same dip towards the north: whence it may be 
concluded that the chalk strata in the neighbourhood of Dover dip 
somewhat less than a degree towards a point between N.E. by E. 
and N. 
CHALK WITH NUMEROUS FLINTS. 
I. With few Organic remains . 
The low range of cliff between Walmer Castle and St. Margaret s 
Bay, being about five miles long from north to south, consists alto- 
gether of the chalk with numerous flints. The rise of the cliff is 
gradual ; its highest part being that immediately contiguous to St. 
Margaret’s Bay, where it scarcely attains 200 feet in elevation. In 
consequence of its nearly uniform hardness from the base to the 
summit, it is almost precipitous, and suffers but little from decay or 
casual fall ; but it is so low in some places, as at Kingsdown Bay for 
instance, as scarcely to exceed 20 feet above the beach. The beds 
of flints are frequent and thin, being on an average scarcely two 
feet, apart; and the flints are obviously separate from each other. 
But a remarkable deviation from this general rule is observable 
immediately on the west of St. Margaret’s Bay ; where a con- 
tinuous stratum of flint, about an inch and a half thick, rises 
from the beach, and is readily traced at least two miles from that 
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