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Geology of the South- East of Dorsetshire. 



Junction of vertical and contorted Strata at Ballard Head. 

 The cliff is S52 ft. high ; the down, 584 ft. 



sented in J%. 87. (taken from Mr. Webster's drawing in Sir 

 H. Englefield's splendid work on the Isle of Wight) ; and in 

 fin. 38., which represents the inclination at Old Harry on a 



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Inclination of Strata at Old Harry Hocks, 19° N. 



larger scale, showing that the beds there dip under the sea at 

 about 19° to the north ; so that the range of the curve from 

 Ballard Head to Old Harry is about 71°. The cliff at Ballard 

 Head is about 352 ft.; at Old Harry, about 1 00 ft. high. 



It will be seen, also, that the cliffs towards the north are 



buttressed, as it were, by a number of perpendicular masses, 



which the action of the sea and the atmosphere have worn 



out of the chalk ; and that at the extremity, as represented in 



Jig. 39., there are four insulated masses, two of which are 



Old Harry Cliffs, Sludland Bay, from the North. 

 1, Old Harry. 2, Old Harry's Wife. 



designated the Pinnacles, or, in a nautical phrase, Old Harry 

 aiid his Wife. The elemental agencies have nearly produced 



