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its earthy aspect, point out the lateness of its 

 formation. 



" 5. It occurs only in low situations, and most 

 frequently on sea-coasts, where it forms con- 

 siderable cliffs ; but when it occurs in inland 

 situations, it rises into hills of considerable 

 height. 



" 6. In England, it extends through Wilt- 

 shire, Hampshire, Surry, Middlesex, Essex, and 

 Kent; and appears on the opposite coast of 

 France, and stretches through the Netherlands. 

 In the Baltic, it occurs in the islands of Zealand, 

 Moen, Rugen, Wollin, and Saltholm ; and it ex- 

 tends from Saltholm to the Swedish province 

 Schonen. According to Dr. Steffens, the chalk 

 at Stevens-klint in Zealand, and that of Moen, 

 rests upon an aggregate of nautilites, serpulites, 

 chamites, and corallites." 



To the petrifactions may be added vast de- 

 composed ammonites, as at Margate, pectenites, 

 large pinnites, as at Meudon, near Paris, the 

 glossolites or glossopetrse, called petrified pa- 

 lates, often of a In-ight brown and great beauty * ; 

 with what are called Judaic stones, seemingly 

 spines of a large sea-urchin, dionites, &c. It 

 has been remarked that the petrifactions in chalk 



* See Woodward and P. Tr. No. 232. 



