Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1897 — An Island Composed of Chalk. [ARTICLE]

An Island Composed of Chalk.

The English island of Tlianet (forming a i>art of the county of Kent) is almost wholly composed of chalk. The island is ten miles in length and alwut five in breadth, and lias more chalk exposed on Its surface than any other sjiot of equal area on the globe. British geologists say that there are not less than 42,000,000,000 tons of chalk ‘'in sight” on Tbanet, and that It would take 10,000 men and 5,000 horses ami carts twenty years to move it, provided it were dug up, ready to be carted away.