THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE 

 OF THE PARISH OF HARTING. 



UPWARDS of half a century having elapsed 

 since I became acquainted with the country 

 around Harting, and forty-two years having 

 passed since I described the geological re- 

 lations of the western extremity of the great 

 Wealden valley between the South and 

 North Downs,* I gladly comply with the 

 request of the Vicar of Harting, the Reve- 

 rend Henry D. Gordon, and will endeavour 

 briefly to delineate the main geological 

 features of a parish, in which, through the 

 kindness of my valued friends the late 

 Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh and his excel- 

 lent Widow, I have enjoyed so many plea- 

 sant days. 



I must first beg the reader to cast his 

 eye over a geological map of England, in 

 order to understand that the several forma- 

 tions which I am about to describe, as ex- 

 hibited in and near the parish of Harting, 

 are simply segments of the several zones of 

 rock which constitute the sides and centre 

 of the great Wealden valley of Sussex, 



c NOTE. In 1815 I married Charlotte, the only 

 daughter of General Hugonin, of Nursted House, 

 in the adjacent parish of Buriton. In 1825 I pub- 

 lished the geological memoir, entitled " Geological 

 Sketch of the North-western Extremity of Sussex, 

 and the adjacent Parts of Hants and Surrey." 

 (Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond., 2 ser., v. 2., p. 97.) 



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