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versed by boats. Vestiges of the walls of the vineyard were to be 
seen standing in the water. 
The Hospice at present literally stands in the water, and a wooden 
bridge has been made to keep up the communication over the re- 
mains of a pavement on the land side (and more than a foot under 
water) which was passed over a few years ago dry-shod by persons 
entering the convent. Last winter several miles of the high road 
between it and Naples were undermined and totally destroyed, though 
very strongly built and faced with solid masonry. This was attri- 
buted solely to stormy weather; but an unsound and sinking foun- 
dation was most likely an assisting cause. A new road a little further 
back from the sea is at present under formation by the government 
at immense cost, by cutting into the face of the rocks of old lava, 
which there advance close to the sea, and forming breakwaters at 
other places of enormous blocks of that stone. The sinking of the 
hospital is stated to have been very gradual and progressive. 
3. A Description of a New Species of Nautitus (Nautilus Saxbit) 
from the Lower Greensand of the IsLe or Wicutr. By Joun 
Morais, Esq., F.G.S.* 
Tuis species is referred to in Dr. Fitton’s Memoir on the Section at 
Atherfield (Quart. Geol. Jour. vol. iti.) under the name of Nautilus 
Saxbianus (vide Table, p. 289). Its general form is like that of 
Ammonites Fittoni (d’ Archiac), and Am. splendens (Sow.). It also 
closely resembles the N. mesodicus (Quenstedt), but differs from it 
in being of less breadth, having a smaller umbilicus, and in the 
greater number of the septa. 
4. On the Land-Slip at the Lizarp. By. the Rev. C. A. Jouns, 
(Helston). 
[Communicated by the President. ] 
Tue face of the cliff between Mullion Cove and the Blackhead (a 
line of coast which includes the Lizard Point and other places of 
interest) is remarkable for bemg pierced in numerous places by deep 
caverns, most of which appear to have been formed at a remote period 
by the washing away of lodes of steatite im serpentine, mica-slate, 
or hornblende-slate, softer than the adjacent rock. Some of these 
are accessible only by a boat, others may be entered by a pedestrian 
at low-water, some few are beyond the reach of the tide except durmg 
a storm; but I am not aware of any which are elevated much above 
high-water mark. ‘They are usually called by the people living in 
the neighbourhood ‘‘ Hugoes,”’ with the adjunct of the name of the 
birds observed to frequent them, as “The Daws’ Hugo,” “ Ravens’ 
Hugo,” “ Pigeons’ Hugo.” Near the fishing village of Cadgwith, 
about three miles east of the Lizard, there is a natural archway which 
may be entered by a boat, and which terminates in a pebbly beach, 
* Withdrawn by the Author. 
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