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GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



Gait ; 4, the Firestone ; and then cross the ridge 

 formed by the highly inclined strata of the White- 

 chalk. 



Shalcomb Down. 



Brook Puint 



H. Fossil Trees. wealden. -6, 



LIGN. 18. — SECTION FROM BROOK-POINT TO SH ALCOMB-DOWN ; 1$ MILE. 



The turnpike-road leads through the villages of 

 Mottestone* and Brixton, to Shorwell, where it 

 divides, and sends off a branch to Newport on the 

 north-east, and another on the south-east, through 

 Kingston and Chale to Blaekgang Chine. About 

 midway between Brixton and Shorwell a tenantry 

 road turns off to the right, and admits a carriage 

 to within a few hundred yards of the cliff, near 

 the Atherfield Coast-guard Station. This is the 

 most convenient place to alight, and reach the 

 sea-shore near the junction of the Greensand and 

 Wealden formations. The path down the preci- 

 pitous face of the cliff lies a little to the east of the 



* On an eminence overlooking the village of Mottestone is a rude pillar of 

 ferruginous sandstone called the "Long-Stone," and which was probably 

 erected ..* a landmark or boundary stone, at a very remote period. It is 

 twelve feet high ami of an irregular quadrangular form. 



