flints being broken, but further on, this character disappears, the chalk is 

 liorizontiil, and the flints in layers. The whole of the hill between 

 Studland and Swanagc bays is capped by the upper chalk, containing 

 — Beleninites, Echini, Terebratula?, three or more species. Spatangus 

 Cor-anguinum, an Ammonite, corals, and, at Studland, portions of Pen- 

 tacrinite. 



At the end of the cliff are the perpendicular masses known as Old 

 Harry and his AVife. Here the beds dip under the sea at a very low 

 an^le, but rounding the point they are found to rise at an angle 

 continually increasing, until at Ballard Head the strata bend upward in a 

 curve and rest against vertical strata. Theclifi'at Ballard Head is about 



:.')2 feet in height, and at Old Harry about 100 feet. On the south side 

 of the hill the lower chalk contains very few fossils, and these few are 

 not easily cleared on account of the chalk being extremely hard. From a 

 pit at Westwood may be obtained Inoceramus, a small Echinus, and, at 

 Punfield, Turrilites and Pleurotomaria. 



At Punfield we have the upper greensand, or Firestone, and Oault, 

 in a highly inclined position. The junction of the former and the 

 chalk may be easily traced from thence to Corfe Castle. The Hedge 

 wliich separates the enclosures from the Down, may be taken as a 

 tolerably correct line. The Firestone skirts to the foot of the chalk 

 cliff nearly as far as Ballard Head, and many characteristic fossils 

 may be obtained from it, but the Gault contains few or none. Some years 

 since, however, C. Wilcox, Esq., of Swanage, obtained from it, at this 

 locality, the carapace of a small crustacean. 



West to the Gault are four or five thin irony bands in an equally 

 inclined position, separated by sands and dark-coloured clays containing 

 marine shells. One of these is composed chiefly of a small oyster, and 

 two specimens of a cone have been obtained from it. The western- 

 most of these bands is composed of a blackish grit, containing a 

 quantity of (apparently) quartz, similar in character to a bed of 

 (juartzose sand which is exposed in a deep waggon-way at Godlingston, 

 passing into an irony band, and which enters largely into the compo- 



ition of a band of sandstone which is exposed at about half a mile 

 ;urther west. The above-mentioned band contains Cyprides. From 

 thence to Swanage are the Hastings sands and clays — yellow sands, 

 pink and grey clays, with irony bands, and sandstones. Many 

 Saurian bones were formerly to be obtained from this locality ; Dr. 

 ^Mantell, in his Geology of the Isle of Wight^ speaks of them as being 



vtremely abundant, in fact that "the sea shore is often strewn with 

 oiled bones of the Iguanodon and other animals that have been washed out 



f the fallen masses of the strata." Such, however, has not been the case 

 ior some years past. The geologist may now search, and in all proba- 

 bility, as I have frequently done myself, in vain for i single specimen. 



Professor Buckland, speaking of these remains, says : '* In the month 

 of September, 1829, I found in the museum of the Rev. T. O. 

 Hartlett, of Swanage, a collection of bones of various reptiles, such 

 as have been found by Mr. Man tell associated together in the ironsand 

 of Tilgate Forest ; the most remarkable are those of the Iguanodon, 

 together with vertebrae and other bones of more than one large species 

 of Plesiosaurus, and of large and small crocodiles, and fragments of 



