20 PEDESTRIAN TOUR BOUND THE ISLAND. 



where the fossil forest of the Wealden is exposed. 

 From Brook, the Atherfield Coast-guard station 

 may be visited, where there is a foot-track down 

 the Cliff to the sea-shore, near the junction of 

 the freshwater beds of the Wealden, with the 

 marine strata of the Greensand above ; a locality, 

 which the researches of Dr. Fitton have made 

 classic ground to the geologist. 



A pedestrian tour round the Island may be 

 accomplished in ten or twelve days, and the prin- 

 cipal localities visited, and a good collection ob- 

 tained of the organic remains peculiar to each 

 formation. The following notes of a trip made 

 last summer by my young friends, the Messrs. 

 Gladstone, of Stockwell, ma)-, perhaps, be useful 

 to some of my readers. 



■■ Monday. — By railway from London to Southampton — to 

 by steamer. Examined the blocks of freshwater lime- 

 bore • and collected specimens of Limn: us, 

 (PI. I. figs. ::. ! . Planorbis (PI. I fig. 1 . and other shells. By 

 coach to Newport ; walked to Carisbrook Castle, and after a stroll 

 ihc ruins, examined the chalk pits of Mountjoy, 



Rode to Calbourne, and visited the quarries of 

 tr> shwater limestone. Walked to Grove's hotel on the summit of 

 the hill, over Alum Hay. In the afternoon strolled to the sea- 

 Bhoreal the fool ofHeadon Hill, and along Alum Bay; collected 

 numerous fossil shells from the freshwater strata at the former, 

 and marine Bhells from the London Clay at the latter place. 



Wednesday.- Walked over the Down- to Freshwater Gate: 

 ami from thence bj Alton and Mialcomb Downs to Brook Point 



