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d. Shale, one foot six inches. 
e. Nodular bed like c, full of shells. 
f. Shale, two feet six inches. 
g. Soft calcareous layers full of shells. 
h. Series of fissile and solid subcalcareous sandstones, ironstone, and calcareous 
shale beds, here and there containing fossils. Some beds waved like the tide-worn 
sand, others full of ramified masses, very like but smaller than those in the calcareous 
grit. 
These beds continue rising in the cliffs which encircle the bay of 
Cloughton Wyke, where incrustations happen from the water falling over 
them, and, beyond, ascend to the summit of the far loftier cliffs between 
Cloughton and Haibum Wyke. That part of these cliffs where the 
little colliery is established is two hundred and forty feet high, and 
exhibits the following beds below those enumerated above : 
i. Black shale. 
Jc. Solid sandstone. 
l. Black shale. 
m. Sandstone. 
n. Shale. 
o. Sandstone. 
P- 
Shale & coal. 
} Coal seam, 1 ft. Black shale, 1 ft. 6 in. 
W hite shaly stone, 1 ft. 6 in. Shale & sandstone. 
q. Sandstone. 
r. Shale. 
s. Sandstone. 
t. Shale. 
u. Sandstone at the cliff foot. 
This coal seam, beneath the gray oolite, is pretty extensively- 
wrought in the interior moorlands, as at Maybecks on the Sneaton 
estate near Whitby, and in Danby beacon. The strata which come 
below these cannot be well traced towards Haiburn Wyke, though the 
cliff is three hundred and thirty-one feet high, because of a slip or 
sunken portion of the precipice, much overgrown with shrubs and dis- 
guised by loose blocks. There is a dislocation, perhaps a double one, at 
Haiburn Wyke, and I am not certain that the sandstone beds on the 
opposite sides are correctly referred to their respective relative situa- 
tions ; but the section was drawn after three careful examinations of the 
place. If it be correct, there are two faults, one running on each side of 
the little insulated cliff, and raising the strata a few yards on the south 
side. 
