It will be impossible to examine all the beds. One or two, however, may be mentioned. And since the beds rise at the east we will begin from Milford. First of all, at Mineway, there runs a remarkable band of fine sand, the “Middle Marine Bed,” discovered some twenty-five years ago, by Mr. Edwards, and subsequently successfully worked by Mr. Higgins. It is seldom, however, exposed for more than a few yards; but that is sufficient to show, that after the elevation of the beds beneath they once more subsided, and the sea came over them again, and after that they were once again elevated. Just below Hordle House rises the “Crocodile Bed,” running out of the cliff about three hundred yards from Beckton Bunny. The lowest part of it teems with fish-scales, teeth, crocodile plates, ophidian vertebræ, seed vessels, and other vegetable matter, very often mixed in a coprolitic bed, just beneath a band of tough clay, the specimens being more frequent to the east than the west. The accompanying section (I.) will, perhaps, not only serve to show the situation of the bed, but also those above and below. My measurements will be found to differ slightly from Sir Charles Lyell’s[269] and Dr. Wright’s;[270] but this is owing to their having been taken in different places. Immediately under the “Leaf Bed,” which, as seen in the opposite section, rises from the shore to the west of Hordle House, comes the lowest bed of the Lower Freshwater Series, formed of blue sandy clay sixteen feet in thickness, from whence Mr. Falconer obtained so many of his mammalian remains.[271] [Illustration: Section I. _of Hordle Cliff, a little to the west of Hordle House.—The beds here incline at an angle of 5°._] Ferruginous flint gravel interstratified with sand—18 feet. Light blue marl in the upper part running into sand—12 feet. Ligneous bed—12 inches. Bluish marl running into shades of light grey, caused by the comminuted shelly matter—15 feet. Ligneous bed—9 inches. Green marl—3 feet 6 inches. Limestone—4 inches. Lignite—1 inch. Green marl—5 feet 4 inches. Grey sand—portion of Dr. Wright’s Crocodile Bed—4 feet. Fossil bed—9 to 13 inches. _a, b_—Bands of tough brown clay, not continuous. _c_—Coprolite bed appearing here and there, and always full of organic remains. Sand bed, uncertain—1 foot 8 inches. Light blue marl—4 feet 6 inches. Grey sand—2 feet 5 inches. Leaf bed, which here rises from the beach—18 inches. The present sea-shore.