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 without marked divisions; and the Beer stone must take its place therefore simply as Lower Chalk.

To return to the cliffs. Near Branscombe there is white hard Lower Chalk over the cream-coloured sandstone of the Greensand; but sometimes a flint-layer occurs little more than a foot above the latter. At the highest part of the cliff the section is : —

Irregular pipy deposit of flints.

Chalk with flints.

Chalk without flints, but with hard cream-coloured nodules, 30 or 40 feet.

Sandstone (Greensand).

A little westward there is a layer of flints a few feet above the Greensand, to which also the Chalk with flints is nearer. Still further westward, where the cliff again rises, a thick continuous deposit of flints caps the Chalk, and there are signs of the bed with quartz- grains at the bottom of the latter. Then a part of the section (fig. 3) shows flint-layers, some of which end abruptly — and some nodular layers not parallel with the former, but cutting through them.

Fig. 3. — Section of part of the top of the Cliff west of Branscombe Mouth.

1. Flint-gravel.

2. Chalk with many layers of flint.

3. Nodular layers.

4. Chalk with a few layers of flint and of marl, and a layer of nodules.

5. Talus.

At the small outlier on the hill west of Weston Mouth, the most westerly patch of chalk shown on the Geological Survey Map, hardly any thing can be seen, from the great surface-deposit of flints; but at the next cliff beyond, just east of Salcombe, Mouth, there is again a little chalk, which I believe to be the most westerly mass of that rock now existing in England.

The above notes must be taken as merely a record of a few facts

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