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XXI. Additional Obfervatiofis on fome remarkable Strata of Flint in ike 

 IJle of Wight^ in a Letter frotn Sir Henry Charles Englefeld, Bart, 

 F.R.S, to John Latham^ M.D. F,R.S. and L.S, of Ronify. 



Read July 7, 1801, 



DEAR SIRy 



1 FEEL much flattered by the notice taken of my Paper* on the 

 Chalk Pits of the Ifle of Wight by the Linnean Society ; and as I 

 wifh to render my account of the very curious appearances obferved 

 by me in them as perfect as I can, the following additional obferva- 

 tions on the fubje6l, made during a fecond vifit laft year, are, by 

 your favour, fubmitted to the Society. 



The pits I lail year infpefted are as follow, beginning from the 

 eaft. 



Brading pit, which is at the eaftern point of the great ridge,. 

 where the valley of Brading Haven interfecls it, and feparates it 

 from the Yaverland hill, w^hich terminates in the fea at Culver and: 

 Bembridge. 



A road cut into the chalk above Knighton. 



A(hey-down pit, about three miles eail of Newport. 



A pit very near toj and fouth o ', Carifbrook cafllc. 



The cliffs and caves of Frefhwater bay, both eaft and wefl of the 

 valley, which interfedls them entirely, and runs from Frelliwater 

 to Yarmouth. 



The Yaverland chalk is, therefore, the only part which I have 



* P. 103. 

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