onfome remarkahh Strata of Flints 109^ 



iiflfures in the chalk, the fifTures are in many places filled to a. con- 

 fiderable extent with a very thin vein of pure flint exaetly as if 

 the flint, not being quite hard when the filTures took place, had 

 been fqueczcd out of the beds and run into the fiflares as foft pitch 

 would do. I do not mean at all to fay that this.w.as the cafe, but 

 merely to defcribe the appearances. In the chalk pit jufl: below the 

 church at Biighthelmftome snother fingular appearance may be 

 feen. The upper part of the chalk is in leparatc mafles, not pro- 

 perly rubble, but with all their tender angles Iharp exaclly as if jufl 

 broken to pieces to put into the lime kiln, and quite clean, nearly of 

 a fize, and almoft without any chalk powder nnxed with them. 



I remain, &c- 



Southampton, Jan, zz, i8oo, 



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