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DIMLINGTON. 
This deposit has so different an aspect from the usual appearance of 
diluvium, that it might rather seem the result of some uncommon 
operations of the sea or violent land-floods ; but we shall find further 
opportunities of examining this question, when we come to mention 
similar phenomena near Bridlington. 
From Kilnsea to where the road goes from the shore to Easing ton, 
the coast is an extended beach of pebbles and sand, which opposes a Ioav 
barrier to the union of the sea and the Humber ; but from this point cliffs 
arise, higher and higher, till they reach Dimlington height, which is the 
loftiest point in Holderness. The beacon here appears about one hun- 
dred and forty-six feet above high water, and the whole cliff is composed 
of clay, with pebbles scattered through it. Here the wasteful action of 
the sea is very conspicuous : the sand and pebbles being removed from 
the base of the cliffs by the southward set of the tide, vast masses are 
undermined, and fall in wild and ruinous heaps ; these, as they gradu- 
ally reach the base, are washed away, and the process of destruction is 
repeated. 
From Dimlington height the cliffs descend to Out-Newton, where 
they are about thirty feet high. In this part we remark a good deal of 
gravel deposited in layers, chiefly above, but sometimes in the midst of the 
clay. The most remarkable appearance of this kind is represented in the 
sketch (B). Here, near the surface, is a mass of sand and small gravel, five 
feet thick, in irregular layers, resting upon a bed of coarse gravel, four feet 
thick ; below this comes a layer, four feet thick, of sand and small gravel, 
in highly-inclined layers ; still lower, a repetition of the coarse gravel, 
five feet thick, and a third series of obliquely-laminated sand, the whole 
resting upon the blue pebbly clay, the lowest diluvial deposit in Holder- 
ness. Near this place, (further north,) we may observe a quantity of gravel 
in irregular layers, poured, as it were, into a cavity in the pebbly clay. 
Between Out-Newton and Holympton, we are surprised by the ap- 
pearance of a fresh-water deposit of marly clay, on the top of the cliff, 
about twenty feet above high water. As many of these interesting 
