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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
In Professor Prestwich's important paper on the Raised Beaches of the South of England the following passage occurs: “In Torbay there are small portions of a Raised Beach near Paignton…” As on the strength of this statement the line of Raised Beaches is carried in the map round the extreme present limits of Torbay, and the hitherto universally accepted doctrine, that Raised Beaches do not occur in the softer parts of the coast-line, is thus controverted, the assertion is one of considerable importance.
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page 405 note 2 Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. xx, p. 250.Google Scholar
page 406 note 1 Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. x, p. 203.Google Scholar
page 406 note 2 Loc. cit., p. 200.Google Scholar
page 407 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlviii, p. 297.Google Scholar
page 407 note 2 Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. xi, p. 316.Google Scholar
page 407 note 3 ibid., vol. xxi, p. 485.
page 407 note 4 The difficulty lies in interesting the fisherman sufficiently to preserve hand specimens, and to take notes as to bearings. I was fortunate enough to interest a most intelligent and trustworthy crew, on whom I could place all reliance, and whose zeal was stimulated by half-a-crown for each large block, of which a fragment was preserved and whose position was ascertained. Their vessel changed hands long since, and her crew was dispersed. Thanks to my friend Professor Hughes all their carefully collected specimens are preserved in the Woodwardian Museum.