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yards from the shore, may be said to commence the bed containing 
those rare fossils called Beloptera, surrounded by innumerable Fora- 
minifera and microscopical shells. I shall denominate this the ‘ Be- 
loptera-bed’; it may be said to extend some distance beyond Med- 
meney Farm-house : adjoining this bed a little nearer the shore are 
procured the Cyprea Bowerbankii and other rare shells. ‘This may be 
called the ‘Cyprea-bed,’ as that fine species I have found nowhere 
else. Pursuing our course westward we arrive at Old Thorney 
Station, opposite to which there is a bed containing very fine speci- 
mens of the Cytherea suberycinordes. 
To the left of this bed, and facing Old Thorney Farm-house, the Arca 
duplicata is discovered in brownish clay ; and a quarter of a mile from 
this spot to the west, we find those magnificent shells the Cerithium 
Cornucopia and C. giganteum, some nearly two feet long. This may be 
called the ‘ Cerithium-bed’; it is half a mile from Old Thorney Sta- 
tion-house, but only clearly discernible at spring-tides in March and 
October. Near this place may also be found the Ostrea elegans, lying 
undisturbed in its original bed. To the right nearer the shore are 
seen Bulla Edwardsii, Solenes, Arce, &c. in loose greenish sand; the 
Calcaire grossier also peeps out with its imumerable fossils*. Ata 
distance of two miles from this spot the Eocene fossils usually again 
make their appearance. 
When I first visited Bracklesham, a barn served the collector for a 
direction-post to the fossils of the Bay; but about six years ago it 
was taken down, the wind having nearly destroyed it; and the sea 
now washes its foundations. 
Opposite this ruin the Venericardia planicosta and Turritella imbrica- 
* The Houngate rocks, of the same formation and character as the Mixen, are situated opposite 
Old Thorney Station-house, visible at low-water. They are nearly a mile in extent, and vary from 
fifty to sixty yards in width ; building stone has also been procured from these rocks. 
