ribpmi. 



(Written with reference to the Coast Excursion on July 10th, 1889.) 



By the Rev. HENRY SHABN SOLLY, M.A. 



EW towns are so favourably situated for the study 

 of Geology as Bridport. Situated at one end of 

 the Jurassic System, which stretches all across 

 England from Dorsetshire to Yorkshire, just 

 at the junction of the Liassic and Oolitic Series, 

 and within easy reach of the New Red Sandstone 

 on the West and the Cretaceous Series on the East, the neighbour- 

 hood readily affords examples of Nature's work during the entire 

 Secondary or Mesozoic Era, and has produced abundant and 

 remarkable specimens of the Reptilian Life, which is the grand 

 characteristic of this great Group of Rocks. But the special 

 advantage of the situation near the sea coast is the magnificent 

 range of cliffs extending from Pinney Bay to Burton Bradstock, 

 where Nature furnishes us with a splendid section of the entire 

 series of Lower, Middle, and Upper Lias, as well as specimens 

 of the Oolitic Series, together with interesting outliers of Gault 

 and Greensand. 



