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SHANKLIN SAND. 
sumes a bolder aspect, and constitutes an elevated 
tract, which runs parallel with the northern escarp- 
ment of the South Downs. This range passes into 
Surrey, and finally into Kent, terminating in the 
clifls of Folkstone and Hythe. 
An instructive section of the sands, vdiich much 
resembles that of Dunnose-point in the Isle of 
Wight, is seen at Stone-pound-gate, near Hurst- 
perpoint, on the Brighton road. The bank is 
nearly 30 feet high, and has on the top a layer of 
loam and clay, beneath which is a bed of bluish clay, 
with an intermixture of sand 5 this reposes on the 
greenish ferruginous sand, that forms the base of the 
hill. Sand of a deep reddish brown colour mottled 
with pure white, appears on the south side of the 
turnpike-gate; and even here, although on so small 
a scale, the triple division of the beds is visible. 
The weald clay comes out from beneath the sand, 
to the north of this place. 
The pretty village of Hurstperpoint, well known 
from the select and interesting collection of fossils 
and antiquities of Richard Weekes, Esq. F.S.A. &c., 
stands on this deposit : and in the plantations at 
Danny, many interesting sections of the red and 
ferruginous sands are exposed. 
At Henfield Hill a very interesting section is 
formed by the road leading from Steyning over 
Broadmere Common, as Mr. Martin * has ob- 
* Geol. Mem. p. 29. Farther west, Mr. Martin remarks, that the 
road from Sutton to Petworth affords a good display of the wliolc 
series: 1. The arid upper sand at Crouch Common ; 2. The argillaceous, 
slaty, and moist strata between Shophambridge and Strond ; .3. Tlie 
green sand and blue limestones from Strond on through Byworth. 
