CONTENTS.

Chapter I. Form, Size, Position, and principal Divisions of the Island page . 3

Chapter II. General Survey of the Coast , and Account of the Solent Sea 10

Chapter III. Particular description of the range of Chalk Hills - 17

Chapter IV. Description of the South Range - - 34

Chapter V. Strata and Soil of the inferior Hills and Valleys - - 47

Chapter VI. Picturesque Account of the Island — Woods, Rocks , Chalk-cliffs,

Chines - 55

Chapter VII. Antiquities of the Isle of Wight - - 89

Additional Observations, chiefly Geological , on the Isle of Wight, and adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire : in a Series of Letters to Sir H. Engicjield, by Thomas Webster.

Letter I. Coast from Bruding, by Culver, to Sandown - - 117

Letter II. Slumklin, Wroxall Down, and Luccombe - - 125

Letter III. Dunnose, Under cliff) and the Southern Coast - - 129

Letter IV. The Undercliff and its Strata - - - 138

Letter V. From St. Catherine’s to Freshwater - 148

Letter VI. Alum Ray, Colwell Bay, and the Needles - - 157

Letter VII. Coast of Dorsetshire - - - - 164

Letter VIII. Central ridge of Hills in the Isle of Wight - - 175

Letter IX. Dorsetshire ... - - 181

Letter X. Coast of Dorsetshire - - - - 193

Letter XI, General Observations on the Strata - - 198

Letter XII. Freshwater formation - - - 236