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XXI. AiUltional Obfervat'ions^on fome remarkable Strata of Flint in the 

 IJle of Wight, in a Letter from Sir Henry Charles Englefeld, Bart. 

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



Read July 7, 1801. 



DEAR SIR, 



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

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

 wifli to render my account of the very curious appearances obferved 

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

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

 your favour, fubmitted to the Society. 



The pits I laft. year infpefled are as follow, begiuning from the 

 caft. 



Brading pit, which is at the eaflern point of the great ridge, 

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

 from the Yaverland hill, which terminates in the fea at Culver and. 

 Bembridge. 



A road cut into the chalk above Knighton. 



Aftiey-down pit, about three miles eaft of Newport. 



A pit very near to, and louth of, Carifbrook caftle. 



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

 valley, which interfeds them entirely, and runs from Freftiwater 

 to Yarmouth. 



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



»P. 103., 

 4 not 



