. The earth and its inhabitants ... ecially acquiredcelebrity on account of the ichthyosaurians and other gigantic reptiles of liassicage which they have yielded. They are well known likewise to agriculturists,for the coprolite, or fossilised guano, in which they abound contains a largoquantity of phosphoric acid, and furnishes a most powerful fertiliser. The liassic rocks of Lyme Regis are succeeded in the east by oolite cliffs, whichterminate in the Bill of Portland, right out in the open sea. The so-called Isleof Portland is in reality a peninsula rising superbly above a submarine plateau,
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ecially acquiredcelebrity on account of the ichthyosaurians and other gigantic reptiles of liassicage which they have yielded. They are well known likewise to agriculturists,for the coprolite, or fossilised guano, in which they abound contains a largoquantity of phosphoric acid, and furnishes a most powerful fertiliser. The liassic rocks of Lyme Regis are succeeded in the east by oolite cliffs, whichterminate in the Bill of Portland, right out in the open sea. The so-called Isleof Portland is in reality a peninsula rising superbly above a submarine plateau, THE CHANNEL SLOPE. 123 where conflicting tides render navigation dangerous, and attached to the main-land by a narrow strip of beach. Rooted to the base of the cliff crowned byBurton Castle, this beach extends along the coast, growing wider by degrees aswe follow it to the south-eastward, and forming a gentle curve, the con-cave side of which is turned towards the sea. It is known as Chesil or Fig. 68.— 1 : 225, 2°30- 2*20- WoPGr. Foresnore. Depth under5 Fathoms.
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