SHANKLIN SAND. 
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discovered a few years since, by the late Mr. Cater 
Rand, of Lewes, while superintending the execu- 
tion of some improvements in the drainage of Pe- 
vensey Levels.* 
This substance is of a dark chocolate colour, is 
easily scraped with a knife, and emits a strong bitu- 
minous odour. Ex])osed to the action of the 
hydro-oxygen blow-})ipe it burns with a bright 
flame, and fuses into a steel grey enamel. t 
SECTION FROM NEAR SOUTHBOURN TO PEVENSEY. 
e 
a b 
a. Galt. 
c. Weald clay, 
e. St. Anthony’s hill, 
g. Westhain. 
h 
c d 
b. Shanklin sand. 
d. Sand and sand-stone, 
f. Langney bridge, 
h. Pevensey hill. 
At Langney point, near Southbourn, and at Pe- 
vensey, the sand may be observed, although much 
covered by alluvium ; and may be traced west- 
ward, in a line parallel with the outcrop of the gait, 
through Arlington, Selmeston, Laughton, Norling- 
ton, &c. to Ditchling, where sand and sandstone of 
a red colour, suddenly rise from beneath the gait, 
near the foot of the Downs, and form the mound on 
w’hich that towm is situated. 
To the west of Ditchling, the sand gi’adually as- 
* This bed was worked by the Romans, who employed it in the con- 
struction of part of Pevensey Castle. In the alluvial clay near Chilley, 
Mr. Rand discovered the remains of a Balista, and a considerable num- 
ber of enormous balls of bituminous sandstone; the latter were in all 
probability intended to supply the engine which (as is well known) was 
employed for hurling large stones. 
■f A sjiecimen analysed by my brother contained 15’4 per cent of 
bitumen. 
