interruption in the natural position of the strata. The rock consists not of limestone but of a hard ironstone, which is used for paving. There is a sudden cleft or fissure which divides it from top to bottom, and the strata, instead of preserving their usual inclination from north to south, meet the eye in all directions, horizontal, perpendicular, and inclining one after the other, until they describe the radii of a large circle.
It may be worth mentioning, that from the western point of the hill called the Hoe, to the eastern, and at other places near it, I have remarked on the side of the cliff, about fifteen or eighteen feet above high water mark, a stratum two or three feet in thickness, composed of sand and waterworn pebbles cemented together, and appearing to have been at some remote period the original beach.
