on frme remarkable. Strata of Flint. loQ 



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

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

 the flint, not being qaite hard when the fiffures took place, had 

 been fqueezed out of the beds and run into the fiflures as foft pitch 

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

 merely to defcribe the appearances. In the chalk pit juft below the 

 church at Brightbelmftome another fingular appearance may be 

 feen. The upper part of the chalk is in feparate malTes, not pro- 

 perly rubble, but with all their tender angles fharp exa-Slly as if juft 

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

 a fize, and almofl: without any chalk powder mixed with them.- 



I remain, Sec. 



Southampton, Jan. 22, 1800. 



VIII. 



