Manti Messenger | 1897-01-23 | Page 2 | An Island of Chalk

tit it 11 1 1 blixt of I 1 he island of thanet form ing a pirt part of the county count of kent is ainia wholly holly 1 composed of chalk the island Is ten t en miles in ili length and about five in breath and has his more chalk exposed to its burbace than any other pot spot of equal area on the globe britch geologist geologists 6 u that there are not le au than 4 tons of chalk I 1 in un on thanet and that it mould take men and horses and carh cart 3 ears to mo move e it pro providing IdIng it were mere dug du tit up read to be carried ama sr lot loiis i rn L ill lc