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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Two papers in the July Number of this Magazine one by Mr. J. H. Blake, and the other by Mr. C. Reid, impugn certain representations given by us of beds on the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts, and demand from us some remark.
page 386 note 1 We have seen sheets of sandy peat also imbedded in the Till itself near Cromer; and in the sections of the Norfolk cliff which accompany the “Remarks and Map” circulated by one of us in 1865, the sands in question are about Sidestrand (where Mr. Reid represents his freshwater bed as intercalated between marine sands) described as charged with the débris of the forest bed with freshwater mollusca and peat (h'" of those sections). With the exception of the lump at Runton, neither of us has ever represented the forest bed and its associated freshwater deposits as in sitû to the west of Mundesley, but only to the east of that place, where we still believe the freshwater beds with mammalian remains occur in that state, whatever be the case as regards the arboreal remains there.
page 388 note 1 The Cardium Grœnlandicum of Mr. Reid is no doubt the shell given in the tabular list which accompanies the “Supplement to the Crag Mollusca,” as Cardium Islandicum with a? These imperfect decorticated specimens of Cardium cannot be identified with any certainty.
page 388 note 2 It is not our business to defend Prof. Prestwich's identification of the shingle at Westleton with these Weybourne sands, which the gentlemen of the Survey impugn; but with respect to the identity which they discover between that shingle and the mass which plunges into the Middle Glacial sand of Dunwich cliff, we beg to say that this shingle (gravel) was several years ago, when that cliff could be ascended at the spot, and closely examined, divided at one end from the Middle Glacial sand beneath it by a denuded remnant of the Upper Glacial clay, in the manner shown in Section R, which accompanies the map in the “Supplement to the Crag Mollusca,” and perhaps this remnant may still be found if looked for.