70 VIGNETTES FROM NATURE, 



VIII. 



A BIG FOSSIL BONE. 



The cliff to eastward of the village consists 

 of soft blue lias strata, interspersed with 

 harder layers of concreted limestone ; and 

 both deposits are worked by the quarrymen 

 for different purposes. The soft sticky clay 

 of the banded belts is used in making blue 

 lias cement at the little mill beside the 

 harbour — our one solitary manufacturing in- 

 dustry — while the intermediate hard layers 

 are burnt for quicklime in the village kilns. 

 This morning, a message from one of the 

 navvies, who knows my taste for antiquities, 

 brought me up here in hot haste from the 

 breakfast table, for fear the rival collector 



