  We study the edge--states excitations of a droplet of quantum Hall liquid
embedded in an electron (Wigner) solid. The presence of strong correlations
between the liquid and solid sectors in the ground state is shown to be
reflected in the density of states $D(E)$, associated with the excitations of
the liquid--solid interface. We find that the prominent effect of these
correlations is a suppression of $D(E)$ with respect to its value ($D_0(E)$) in
the absence of the Wigner solid environment: $D(E) \sim e^{-\alpha |E|}D_0(E)$.
The coefficient $\alpha$ (which is shown to vanish for a perfectly regular
distribution of electron sites in the solid), is evaluated for two different
realizations of an irregular distribution. We conclude that probing this effect
(e.g. in a tunneling experiment), can provide evidence for correlated
liquid--solid mixture states in quantum dots, or disordered samples, in very
strong magnetic fields.
