460 Dr. Nugent oil the Geology of the Island of Antigua . 
No island of this cluster will perhaps be found more worthy of 
notice than Antigua j which, though it possesses none of the sublime 
features which frequently characterize primitive countries, and is 
entirely free from the modern vestiges of volcanic fire, does yet 
exhibit, in a singular degree, both in its outline and in its com- 
ponent rocks, the awful havock which has attended former revo- 
lutions of the earth’s surface. 
Antigua, situated in 17° of north lat. Stnd in 62° of west long, 
contains 108 square miles, and about 69,000 acres. 
The most superficial beds occupy the northern and eastern parts 
of the island, and belong to a peculiar calcareous formation, more 
recent than those to which the attention of naturalists has been 
principally directed, and probably contemporaneous with that which 
has latterly been described as occupying the districts in the neigh- 
bourhood of Paris, the Isle of Wight, and other places, and which 
future observation will probably demonstrate to be very Common in 
this quarter of the globe. The southern limit of this tract may be 
traced from the neighbourhood of Marble Hill Estate, by the wood, 
Cassada Garden, Paynter’s, Sir Geo. Thomas’s, Freeman’s, Burke’s, 
Willis’s, Bodkin’s, and Cochrane’s, to the margin of Willoughby 
Bay, as is marked in the coloured map and sections, plates 32 and 33. 
The general outline of these calcareous beds, particularly in Nonsuch, 
is extremely broken and undulated, as it were, affording the same 
round backed hills and knolls of no great height, as are apparent in 
the chalk districts in England. At their most elevated points, which 
are probably St. Philip’s parsonage and Lynch’s, speaking from 
conjecture, they may be between three and four hundred feet above 
the level of the sea. The materials of which this formation is com- 
posed are by no means uniform in character or appearance ; and it is 
not improbable that a close and minute investigation may hereafter 
