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ancient and curious small edifice, as it has never yet been accu-rately drawn.

Being now on the subject of antiquities, I shall just mentionwhat is here called coal money, and which is found frequently inthis neighbourhood, and about Encombe. It consists of piecesof the Kimmeridge coal of the size of *a half crown (PI. XLII.fig. 5 and 6), and appears to have been turned in some sort oflathe, being moulded on the edge. They have generally a fewsmall holes on one side which, however, do not penetrate throughthe piece, and which vary in number and situation in differentspecimens. Several of them are frequently found together,enclosed between two stones, and it seems not improbable butthey might have been some ancient sort of token money.

From St. Adhelm’s, I had a view of the whole coast eastwardsas far as Durlstone head. It consists of lofty perpendicular cliffsof oolite, the strata dipping a few degrees to the east. Theserocks are of the most frightful aspect, being much exposed toa turbulent sea that has worn in them numerous caverns ofgreat size.

It was on this dangerous coast, and near to a place calledWindspit, just below the village of Worth, that the unfortunateloss of the Halsewell happened.

The Windspit quarries (PI. XXXII. No. 2), about a mile eastof St. Adhelnrs, are a series of excavations in this cliff. Thestone is similar to that of Tillywhim quarry near Durlstonehead.

Numerous fragments of the Purbeck limestone beds lie scat-tered over the hills about Worth, and among them are manythat are extremely curious. These consist of pieces of the chert