76 ■ GREEN OR CHLORITE SAND. 



At Norlington, in the same parish : — ^here the sand is of a red colour, 

 and constitutes a low bank, near the house of Mr. New. 



In a field east of Ringmer barracks, chlorite sand appears immediately 

 beneath the turf, and also on the road-side near the fourth mile-stone. 



At Willingdon, two miles N.W. of Eastbourne, the green sand is 

 covered with a thick bed of diluvial sand, which occurs immediately 

 beneath the surface, and varies from a light grey to a bituminous colour. 

 This bed abounds with rounded fragments of fossil wood, that occur in 

 great profusion in a bank on the road-side, near the residence of Mr. 

 Putland. The specimens are incrusted with a covering of grey sand 

 containing small pebbles of quartz, and internally are of a light reddish 

 brown, clouded with darker shades of the same colour. The wood is 

 calcareous, and bears a good polish, the transverse sections, displaying in 

 a distinct and beautiful manner the radial insertions and annular mark- 

 ings, which denote the annual growth of the tree. 



In some instances, the wood is studded with the remains of a small 

 species of Fistulana*, of a pyriform shape, about 0*3 inch long, bearing 

 some resemblance to F. lagenula, or F. ampullaria, of Lamarck ; the 

 bivalve part of the shell has not been detected, but is in all probability 

 enveloped in the indurated sandstone with which the tubes are filled. 

 This species of Fistulana appears to be new, and may be distinguished by 

 the name of F. pyriformis. 



The sand here described, extends to Arhngton, Selmeston, &c. ; and 

 in a bank on the south side of the road, leading from Selmeston Fair 

 Place, to Chilver Bridge, fossil wood of the same kind as that of Wil- 

 lingdon, has been noticed by Mr. Wm. Figg, jun. 



At Chilley, near Pevensey, a bed of sandstone very strongly impreg- 

 nated with bitumen, occurs beneath a thick layer of marsh land, or silt. 

 It was discovered a few years since, by Mr, Cater Rand, of Lewes, while 

 superintending the execution of some improvements in the drainage of 



* Fistulana. An equivalved bivalve, gaping, nearly toothless shell, included in a club- 

 formed testaceous tube, open at the smaller exti'emity. Ojg. Rem, vol. iii. p. 199. 



