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GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF PURBECK. 







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peninsula is highly 

 picturesque, whether 

 viewed from the sea, 

 or from the summits 

 of the clowns. A mag- 

 nificent view of the 

 Dorsetshire coast, is 

 obtained from atumu- 

 lus on the brow of a 

 very lofty precipice of 

 chalk, that overhangs 

 Worbarrow Bay ; it 

 is admirably repre- 

 sented in plate 35, of 

 Sir H. Englefield's 

 work ; PL XVI. is 

 a slight sketch of 

 the same. From this 

 height we look across 

 the bay to the west- 

 ward ; the path down 

 to the shore, is seen 

 beyond the projecting 

 point of the chalk 

 cliff. The detached 

 rocks in the sea are 

 of Portland stone, and 



