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united with the vertical by a gentle curve, as shown 

 in lign. 36 ; and in these beds the chalk possesses its 

 original friable texture, and the flints are entire. 



Whitenore Bats 



Point. Chaldon Downs. Corner. 



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LIGN. 3G. — CHALK CLIFFS, ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF THE ISLE 

 OF purheck; from bats-corner TO WHITENORE-POINT. 



(The Rev. W. D. Conybeare.)* 



Towards Whitenore the firestone and gait appear 

 at the base of the cliffs. At this spot the chalk 

 trends inland, and thence to Weymouth the coast 

 is flanked by cliffs and flat shores of the inferior 

 strata. From the summit of the chalk cliff at 

 Whitenore, which is about eight miles E.N.E. of 

 Weymouth, the view to the west shows numerous 

 little bays, hollowed out of the shore by the action 

 of the sea along the coast, as far as Weymouth, 

 and Portland Island is strongly defined on the 

 horizon over the sea. To the eastward are seen 

 the chalk cliffs extending to Bats Corner, and the 

 projecting capes of Durdle and Lulworth Coves, 

 and the summit of Worbarrow Down. 



Ringstead Bay. —To the west of Whitenore, 

 the Kimmeridge clay, which we lost sight of at 



" x Geology of England and Wales. 



