The ancient view comprehending the Isle of Purbeck | admits the ... consideration admissible | from the concomitant stratification of its parts | and relative situation of surrounding strata |, at the ... for the Purbeck quarry | all extremely circumscribed as to the comp|arative proportion of the whole . like the | general. horizontal interaction of cons ... | they contribute towards the central chasm | which running thro the main land produces | the ... although of different | heights, parts and produce which are to be | traced along the whole southern coast | commencing at Dover. the most extraneous | ridge of chalk continues North West by | ?Westerham to Guilford so | this succeeding southward the ridge of the | South Downs breaking into the sea | at Hastings As the... ridge | composed of adventitious at...[continued on folio 4,
D07600] of gravel, marl [sand inserted] ... | con ... and ... limestone | ...to this follows another branch of | the main band of chalk thrusting | at bold headlong Beachey Head into | the bosom of the channel precipitous | and until a very late period had th... | ... cliffs or pinnacles calld the | ... continuing its inclined strata | it declines westward and becomes bare | recognisable in the low and ... shore | of Brighton in the sand of Worthing and | lost in the dark and oozy pool of Chichester | although skirting along the upland breaks | out on Portsmouth running its general line | is N W to Salisbury. Its next appearance | ?comprises the Western extremity of the Isle of White and by the powerful and ever dark | renovation of propelling attraction have [continued on folio 4 verso,
D07601] given the Needles their characteristic name by semblance and contracted saline regulating | these Nature has thrown rather ... | line that marks the ... line but still | like the indented yet approximating headland | of the opposed coast have corresponding parts | and adopting the hyp... of Wi... or P... | ... the [?west
inserted] of Britain was once cont... | by an istmus by that line of ... | Blanc ness and the depth of water ... | on the north and Westerly sides | of the Strait of Dover strengthens with the | line of adventitious stones of all sorts | calld boulders form a line of 10 miles | although 20 fathoms on each side con... | the con... almost beyond plausibility | that the waters from the overwhelming ocean | to the north abounds the accumulation by the [continued on folio 5,
D07602] the circumference meeting always at | the point of ... and Fairlight | near Hastings at least strengthens the sand | ... might upon the same basis of | circumference have produced the tonge | formed from a coast of sand and mud | the istmus near Lymington con | tracts... the channel of the Island to | a mile as well in north shallow | at south deep water. this likewise may | be constant ... wholly accumulating of | surrounding stratification but while there | are wr. to trace the rocky co... of | of marl sand retrenching strata of | Alum bay or the projecting insolated | and abrupt Needles
