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" But he is not correct in say- ing that "the bending lines of flint are exactly twenty-two in number;" there are more than double that number ; (farther on he himself speaks of forty -nine horizontal layers).

I tried to count them, but failed in reckoning all, as some of them are double, and subject to change in their order.

I mention one fact which has escaped Dr Mitchell, and all other ob- servers.

About the thirty-fifth "bending" line of flint, the curve, instead of being continuous, is snapped asunder, and the line re-commences a little below the former part, the lines to the top of the cliff pursuing the same course.

It is, in fact, a fault, at that place, as if the upper beds had given way in the straining of the mass, and the northern portions had slipped away to the north ; an analogous example of that phenomenon presented by the whole cliff on a larger scale.

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