and the adjoining Parts of Hants and Surrey. 99 



Froyle in Hants, and at Sutton in Sussex : — occasionally a blue chert may be 

 observed. 



The inferior beds have a softer and more sandy character, particularly near 

 their junction with the Gault. — The depth of the wells sunk in this stratum 

 varies from 60 to 100 feet. 



The fossil shells, thou<^h belonging to few species, are extremely numerous : 

 they are usually much compressed ; and the beds in which they abound being 

 of a perishable quality, they are very fragile. 



Those which I have collected are chiefly from Nursted and Buriton, Hants. 

 —The following names were obligingly afforded me by Mr. Sowerbyj who 

 examined the specimens. 



Ammonites rostratus. 



Ammonites varians. 



Pecten orbicularis, 



Gryphsea vesiculosa. 



Avicula. New species not yet figured. 



Echino-spatagus. New species figured and named in the Icon. Sect. 



Foss. cent. 2da of Konig. 

 Fish : — fin of the Balistes ? 



Circular impressions and highly indurated cylindrical bodies, probably portions 

 of stems of Alcyonia, are very frequent. — Of the above fossils, the Ammonites 

 rostratus and the Pecten orbicularis are the most abundant and characteristic, 

 the latter especially being often well preserved; and it is to be remarked that 

 these two fossils occur in the same geological position in the Undercliff" of the 

 Isle of Wight. 



The relations of the Malm-rock are no where better exhibited than in the 

 vicinity of Binsted, Hants. The peninsular terrace upon which that village 

 stands, is composed exclusively of this formation, which projecting nearly 

 3 miles beyond the Alton chalk-range from south-west to north-east, is sur- 

 rounded at its base on three sides by the subjacent Gault. The Malm-rock 

 is cut through by the river Wey, which thus separates the promontories of 

 Binsted from those of Froyle and Bentley *. 



There exists a remarkable analogy between this inland range, and that laid 

 open in the coast-section of the Undercliff" in the Isle of Wight. The Malm- 

 rock at Hawkley, like that of the Undercliff", forms a terrace terminated by a 



* The Malm Rock of Sussex and Hants must be distinguished from the Malm Land of Surrey 

 at the base of the North-downs, east of Box Hill ; the latter being an agricultural term for the 

 black clay belonging to the Gault. 



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