ERRATIC BLOCKS. 
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ill Stanmer Park ; and on the ploughed lands 
near Ilogshrove farm. At Palmer, the pond 
that sn})plies the village with water is surrounded 
with large blocks, and there are a consider- 
able number in Stanmer Park, the seat of the 
Earl of Chichester ; and also around Brighton. 
These boulders have their edges rounded and even, 
and exhibit incontestable proofs of long exposure 
to the action of the waves. They are of various 
sizes, some of them exceeding nine feet in length ; 
their colour is either wliite, or of different shades 
of grey and reddish brown. Their texture is sub- 
crystalline ; the white varieties, when recently 
broken, much resembling him]) sugar. In a few 
instances, they enclose chalk flints slightly worn, 
and small fragments of a dark green substance, the 
nature of which is unknown. 
Boulders of druid sandstone also occur in the 
shingle bed, and calcareous deposit, at Brighton, 
and may be observed lying on the sea-shore in 
considerable numbers after a recent fall of the 
cliffs. 
U])on comparing the sandstone of Stonehenge 
\\Tth that of Sussex, no perceptible difference can 
be detected ; and in this county, as well as in 
Afdltshire, it has been employed by the earlier in- 
habitants, as landmarks to denote the boundaries 
of towns*, and villages, or to commemorate the 
* The frequent occurrence of large smooth blocks of stone, on the 
boundary line of villages and parishes, in the south-eastern part of 
Sussex, must have been noticed by many of my readers. A large 
boulder of ilruid sandstone, placed at the corner of Ireland’s Lane, in 
St. Ann’s parish, forms the western boundary of the borough of Lewes. 
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