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limestone varying much as to the proportions of lime and silex. They 
extend more than a mile, the greatest number being to the west, and 
off Aldwick join the Barn rocks ; they are of all sizes, some as high 
as sixteen feet, and before the inundation were most likely of greater 
extent and magnitude. 
Casts of fossils may be procured in great number by breaking the 
rocks, but it is difficult to get good specimens with the shell on: the 
Pectunculus brevirostris is the most abundant shell; Pinna affinis, Ver- 
metus Bognoriensis, the Voluta denudata, Pyrula Smithit, Natica, &c. may 
be likewise obtained. These rocks, as well as the ‘ Barn,’ extend many 
miles into the sea. Portions of London clay may be observed between 
these rocks and the shore, but containing few fossils. I have seen 
however the Modiola elegans and Anomia lineata in beautiful preserva- 
tion with their external shell perfect, and others may be found under 
favourable circumstances. The London clay is seldom exposed im- 
mediately opposite the town; though in March and October during 
high tides the sand is sometimes entirely removed, and a few Eocene 
fossils may be observed*. 
The Post-Pliocene formation may be seen more especially in muddy 
deposits opposite the Clarence Hotel, extending towards Felpham : the 
stumps of trees and thousands of the Lutraria Listert and Cardium 
edule may be remarked; and off Felpham Station-house large trees 
twenty feet long lie in a horizontal position, and some large stumps 
still remaining in the situation in which they grew. The bank of the 
shore is six or eight feet above the level of these trees ; it is reasonable 
therefore to suppose that the ancient forest or park was in some parts 
similar to the common now facing the houses on the beach at. Little- 
* Bognor was the first place on the Sussex coast in which the chalk sponges were cut and 
polished into ornaments. There resides a good lapidary of the name of Wyse, who has generally 
an assortment of stones and fossils for sale, and cuts extremely well the Nautilus and other local 
specimens. 
