OF HARTING. 5 



Flints, and at an elevation of 650 feet above the sea, 

 water was only reached by sinking a well to the 

 depth of 250 feet. To have rendered this supply 

 useful would have been most costly and irksome, and 

 hence the water which gushes out from the base of the 

 hill near Harting was turned to account for working 

 an ingenious but simple mechanical contrivance, by 

 which water is thrown up, by the action of an overshot 

 wheel, from the valley to the summit of the hill. 



In its range to the east, as to the west, the Chalk 

 formation of the South Downs is charged with nume- 

 rous marine remains of various groups of animals, 

 whether zoophytes, mollusca, or fishes, though few 

 have been found in the escarpment south of Harting 

 and the hills of Up Park. On the whole, the following 

 species of fossils characterize the Upper Chalk : 

 Inoceramus Brongniarti, Lima spinosa, Ammonites 

 Lewisiensis, Nautilus radiatus, Belemnitella mucronata, 

 and the fishes Beryx Lewisiensis, and palates of 

 Ptychodi. 



As might be expected from the scanty covering of 

 soil, the hills consisting of chalk with flints are most 

 favourable to pasture, and it is on the short, sweet bite 

 of the grass that the far-famed and fine-shaped South 

 Down sheep are reared ; whilst the lower parts of the 

 undulations of the same rock, as at the Castle Farm 

 and Huck's Holt, where the soil is mixed with flints, 

 yield fair crops of barley, turnips, &c. 



The Lower Chalk and Chalk Marl are distinguished 

 from the Upper Chalk by containing the following 

 well-marked species : Inoceramus Cuvieri, I. myti- 

 loides, Pecten Beaveri, Pholadomya decussata, Pleuro- 

 tomaria perspectiva, Ammonites Mantellii, A. vario- 

 laris, A. Rhotomagensis, Nautilus, pseudo-elegans, 

 Turrilites tuberculatus. 



It is, however, when we reach the next formation 

 beneath the Chalk marl, as spread out in a broad 

 plateau of about a mile and a half in width, that we 



