[8 HINTS FOIl TOURISTS. 



(.'owes. — In tlic vicinity of this town there are 

 no interesting sections of the strata easily acces- 

 sible to visitors, nor any locality rich in organic 

 remains. The blocks of freshwater limestone 

 scattered along the shore, contain the usual fossils 

 of the tertiary lluvio-inarine deposits. 



Ryde.* — The freshwater tertiary strata are 

 fully displayed in the vicinity of Ryde. A de- 

 lightful walk to the village of Binstead, conducts 

 to several quarries of the limestone which is 

 extensively used as a building material along the 

 northern district of the Island. Fine specimens 

 may here be collected of fossil freshwater shells, 

 (see PL I. and II.); and these quarries are worth 

 visiting again and again, for the chance of finding 

 teeth or bones of mammalia, similar to those 

 which occur at Montmartre, near Paris, and 

 of which some relics have been discovered 

 at Binstead, by Mr. Pratt, and Mr. Prestwich, 

 (see PL II.). From Hyde, the Tertiary strata 

 at Brading, Bembridge, St. Helen's, and White 

 Cliff Bay — the Chalk at Culver Cliffs — and 

 the Wealden deposits at Sandown Bay — may be 

 visited; and afterwards the Firestone, Gait, and 



* At Ryde information may be obtained as to the best localities, and mode 



of visiting them, of Mr. G. FoWLSTOKE, Lapidary, 1, Victoria Arcade; who 



has generally on sale a choice collection of pebbles and other specimens, 



te Island; man; oi the so called I li ol W igh( 



arc either German or Scotch agate^ ' 



