and Freshwater Deposits of Faster n Norfolk. 357 
zontality, although they seem to correspond to the beds of 
Fig. 6. 
V, 
sand and clay which are so highly inclined near their point 
of contact with the chalk. In the diagram it will be seen that 
from the projecting point of chalk the cliff retires in a series 
of ledges and small precipices in which inclined beds of drift, 
2 , d, are exposed for an aggregate thickness of several hun- 
dred feet. At the top of the cliff which I conjecture to be 
about 400 feet above the sea, the beds of sand seemed to be 
horizontal, but these it should be observed are not imme- 
diately over the inclined beds. Respecting the tilted beds 
which are in contact with the chalk, it will be sufficient to say 
that they consist of gravel, sand, clay and loam like the stra- 
tified drift before described, that the clays are occasionally 
finely laminated, and that broken fragments of Norwich crag 
shells are dispersed through some of the strata; but there are 
no signs here of the freshwater or lignite beds. 
The second or middle protuberance of chalk is near that 
last described: its front along the shore measured in 1839, 
65 yards. Its height w^as between 15 and 20 feet. 
The third and most considerable mass extends along the 
beach for a distance of 106 yards, (see fig. 7.) and its position 
deserves particular notice, for it forms like the southernmost 
mass a projecting promontory about thirty yards beyond the 
general line of cliff. On both sides of this promontory it is 
seen that the beds of gravel, clay and sand which abut against 
