. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. l appreciated as from thesea; but it is a magnificent walk along the edge, andeven the face of the cliffs, by the old alum-works, maybe explored by the venturous. Just beyond Skinnin-grove the broad reef of Hummersea Scar lies at thefoot of the cliffs, rich in its treasures of marine biology;but the reef narrows further on by Rockcliff and theWhite Stones, and beyond Hole Wyke is known asBias Scar. Eastward, in a deep cleft, between the sheer pointedprecipice of Colburn Nab, and the rounder cliff ofPiercey Nab, lies hidden the quaint ol
. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. l appreciated as from thesea; but it is a magnificent walk along the edge, andeven the face of the cliffs, by the old alum-works, maybe explored by the venturous. Just beyond Skinnin-grove the broad reef of Hummersea Scar lies at thefoot of the cliffs, rich in its treasures of marine biology;but the reef narrows further on by Rockcliff and theWhite Stones, and beyond Hole Wyke is known asBias Scar. Eastward, in a deep cleft, between the sheer pointedprecipice of Colburn Nab, and the rounder cliff ofPiercey Nab, lies hidden the quaint old fishing villageof Staithes. Here is the first great dislocation of the strata wehave met with in our survey of the coast, and we cannotdo better than quote Phillipss account of it: * Onarriving at Staithes—from the Runswick direction— a much greater dislocation demands our cliffs on the opposite sides of this harbour displayfine sections of strata ; and it is with surprise we per-ceive that they are quite dissimilar. The signal cliff. o t/5 a / The Coast Region from Salt burn to Whitby 49 on the east has a diluvial covering, and beneath ithard shale, irony and rugged, with great balls of iron-stone ; soft shale, with a remarkable sulphureous linein it; and the ironstone series, consisting of layersof ironstone nodules and beds, alternating with in Colburn Nab, on the west side, we find adiluvial covering, and beneath it a series of alternationsof shaly and sandy beds, in some of which are anindescribable profusion of fossils, especially cardiumtrunculatum, pectines, and dentaha; and at thebottom the deeper lias shale, with a few layers of iron-stone nodules. The extent of this dislocation isobviously something greater than the whole height ofColburn Nab.* You may see the village of Staithes now much asJames Cook saw it—a red-tiled place, nestled in thehollow, grouped about a steep, narrow street whichleads down to the staith or landing-place, whe
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