138 NOTICE OF THE LAND-SLIP 



Head from fore-part to the posterior margin of the scales, 10^ inches. 



Ditto, width across the eyes, 6^ inches. 



Fore-fin, length of scaly portion, 1 foot 5 inches. 



Ditto, greatest width, 6 inches. 



Hind fin,length, 8 inches. 



Ditto breadth, 6 inches. 



There can be but little doubt of the animal under consi- 

 deration being the Testiido Caretta of Linnaeus, the Chelonia 

 Caretta of modern authors. It agrees with the figures and 

 descriptions of this creature in my possession, except that the 

 middle row of dorsal plates have not a very elevated ridge 

 along their centre. The fifteen dorsal plates and great length 

 of the fore-fin or paddle, with the well-developed toes, dis- 

 tinguish this species from the common green turtle so much 

 in repute among epicures. 



I remain, 

 Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 W. Wilson Saunders. 

 To the Editor Mag.Nat. Hist, 



Art. VII. — Notice relating to the recent Landslip on the Devonshire 

 Coast. By John Young, Esq., in a letter to the Editor. 



My visit to the landslip at Culverhole Point, near Axmouth, 

 was of so hasty a nature as scarcely to warrant my attempting 

 any description of the phenomena which came under my no- 

 tice. I have moreover, for the last twenty years, given my 

 attention to Horticulture rather than to Geology, and fear 

 therefore, that I shall fail in furnishing such an account as 

 would interest those of your readers who are acquainted with 

 the latter science, and that my unlearned description will be 

 hardly worthy a place in your journal. 



My ignorance of the original position of the ground where 

 the subsidence has taken place, is one disadvantage under 

 which I labour. It appears, however/ that numerous catas- 

 trophes of a similar kind had taken plice on this part of the 

 coast at remote periods, forming whit is called the Under- 

 cliff, and let it be remarked, that it is in connection with a 

 part of this Undercliff, about a mile to the east of Cul- 

 verhole Point, that the sinking of the ground on the 24th 

 December last commenced, taking a direction towards the 



