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gravel and underlying light yellow siliceous sands are again exhi- 

 bited. The shingle-bed is here wanting ; and the sand-bed *, which 

 is on a rather lower level than at the first pit, is still without 

 traces of shells. I also found small sandpits in a wood at the corner 

 of two roads between Hungerdown and Eartham, and again near 

 Boxgrove Common, and thence traces of the same sands are apparent 

 at intervals as far as Goodwood. At the entrance to the Park there 

 is a large sandpit in a small copse by the road-side. My attention 

 was first directed to this very interesting section by Mr. H. W. Bris- 

 tow. The sands are here so fine and so regularly stratified as to 

 look more like some Older Tertiary sands rather than any of our 

 hitherto known Post-pliocene beds. This pit is 6| miles distant 

 in a straight line from the nearest part of the present coast. The 

 following sketch represents its chief features. 



Pig. 3. — Waterheach Sandpit at the S.E. corner of Goodwood FarTc, 



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a. Bright ferruginous clay, full of large and small angular 



flints ; furrowed and worn into the underlying bed 2 to 6 feet. 



b. Whitish chalk-rubble with irregular seams and layers of 



small angular fragments of flint and small gravel 8tol0 feet. 



c. Yerj fine Sght-coloured and slightly micaceous sand, with 



patches of shell-sand, and a few subordinate layers of thin, 

 very hard, rough, tabular sandstone, and a few rare chalk- 

 boulders. Some shells, in a very friable condition, are 

 irregularly dispersed through the sand 14 feet. 



The upper drift " a" is like that at the Avisford pit, but the bed 

 of shore-shingle is wanting here. We find, on the contrary, under 

 the ferruginous clay- drift, and deeply indented by it, a roughly- 

 stratified white drift of chalk and flint-rubble, b, like that imme- 



* I am informed by Mr. Martin, of Pulborough, that similar sands have 

 formerly been worked at Ball's Hutt, on the higli-road near this place. 



