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STRATA NEAR TUNBRIDGE WELLS. 
ferruginous sandstone, and limestones, in various 
places to the south of Riegate ; and the bones of 
saurians have been observed in these beds, as well 
as in the softer sandstones and sands. At Oakwood 
Hill, in the parish of Wootton, near Ockley, in 
Surrey, several vertebrae, and a fine carpal bone of 
an enormous reptile, were discovered in 1828, and 
presented to me by the late Walter Burrell, 
Esq., M. P. for Sussex. At Norwood Hill, near 
Chari wood, Mr. Constable found cyclades^ and a 
shell resembling the melania. 
In the Weald of Kent, these beds have not been 
examined with due attention. In the neighbour- 
hood of Tunbridge Wells, there are many interest- 
ing localities, which diligent research would, I am 
persuaded, soon render as productive in organic 
remains as any of the strata in Sussex. Near the 
pretty hamlet of Southborough I collected from a 
quarry on the road-side, leaves of ferns, scales of 
fishes, and teeth of crocodiles ; from the sandstone 
on Tunbridge Wells Common, 'paludinoB^ teeth of 
crocodile, and megalosaurus, and minute teeth and 
scales of fishes ; and, in short, in almost all the 
quarries around the Wells, the peculiar organic 
remains of the Wealden were found more or less 
abundantly. 
In the sandstone pit on Langton Green, masses 
of ferruginous sandstone occur, which abound in 
casts of a small pahidinay and cyclas^ and a re- 
markable bivalve, which has not been named ; with 
myriads of the casts of cypris faha. The sandstone 
of the Higli Rocks, near Eridge, contains traces of 
ferns and of arundinaceous plants. The quarries 
