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part of this cliff thefe fliells are found ; but 

 chiefly about the village of Hordle. It is 

 difficult to get them, as the colledor muft 

 clamber up the fides of the precipice, and 

 then extricate them from the clay, which 

 is very ftiiF, by a tool. Their texture too is 

 very brittle, and will hardly bear cleanfmg. 

 What is remarkable, few of thefe fhells belong 

 to this coafl, or indeed to any European coaft ; 

 fome of them are faid to be tropical ; and 

 many of them as far as is known, are found 

 no where but on this cliff. It is remarkable 

 alfo, that this ftratum of fliells runs in a 

 northerly direction quite through New-foreft. 

 Wherever the earth is opened to any depth, 

 in digging marie, or on other occafions, fliells 

 are found ; tho I never faw them of any lize ; 

 except upon the coaft. 



About two, or three miles farther, the cliff 

 fails i and the coaft becoming flat, forms a An- 

 gular fpit of land, which runs two miles into the 

 fea, and leaves but a narrow channel between 

 it, and the ifle of Wight. At the end of 

 it ftands Hurft-caflle. This little peninfula, 

 as it may be called, is fo narrow, that it 

 fcarce, at high water, exceeds two hundred 

 yards in breadth. In high tides it is much 



narrower. 



