418 Geology of the South- East of Dorsetshire. 



Junction of vertical and contorted Strata at Ballard Head. 

 Thecliff is 352 ft. high; the down, 584ft. 



sented in Jig. 87. (taken from Mr. Webster's drawing in Sir 

 H. Englefield's splendid work on the Isle of Wight) ; and in 

 fig. 38., which represents the inclination at Old Harry on a 



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Inclination of Strata at Old Harry Rocks, 19° n. 



larger scale, showing that the beds there dip under the sea at 

 about 19° to the north ; so that the range of the curve from 

 Ballard Head to Old Harry is about 71°. The cliff at Ballard 

 Head is about 352 ft. ; at Old Harry, about 100 ft. high. 



It will be seen, also, that the cliffs towards the north are 



buttressed, as it were, by a number of perpendicular masses, 



which the action of the sea and the atmosphere have worn 



out of the chalk; and that at the extremity, as represented in 



Jig. 39., there are four insulated masses, two of which are 



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Old Harry Cliff's, Studland Bay, from the North. 



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1, Old Harry. 2, Old Harry's Wife 



designated the Pinnacles, or, in a nautical phrase, Old Harry 

 and his Wife. The elemental agencies have nearly produced 



