"To discover order and intelligence in scenes of apparent wildness and confusion, is the pleasing § 1. The country around Lewes, is composed of various beds of chalk, marl, sand, and limestone, originally deposited in nearly horizontal layers, but now broken and displaced by the effects of subsequent causes. § 2. The chalk, which from the mountain masses it forms, and the considerable tract of country over which it extends, may be ranked as the most important formation in this district, is not, however, the uppermost or latest deposit, but is itself covered in many places by portions of strata, belonging to those newer formations, that have received the names of superior or tertiary, and of which an interesting fragment still remains at Castle Hill, near Newhaven. It is to this spot that we would first conduct the intelligent reader, and having investigated the geological phenomena which it presents to our notice, lead him from thence over the inferior strata, which in passing from the coast to the interior of the country, appear at the surface in a descending series, maintaining the order of superposition exhibited in the following arrangement. |