276 NATURAL HISTORY 
side, which was strangely torn and disordered. 
The second pasture-field, being more soft and 
’ springy, was protruded forward without many fis- 
sures in the turf, which was raised in long ridges 
resembling graves, lying at right angles to the mo- 
tion. At the bottom of this enclosure, the soil and 
turf rose many feet against the bodies of some oaks, 
that obstructed their farther course and terminated 
this awful commotion. 
The perpendicular height of the precipice, in 
general, is twenty-three yards ; the length of the 
lapse or slip, as seen from the fields below, one 
hundred and eighty-one; and a partial fall, con. 
cealed in the coppice, extends seventy yards more ; 
so that the total length of this fragment that fell 
was two hundred and fifty-one yards. About fifty 
acres of land suffered from this violent convulsion ; 
two houses were entirely destroyed; one end of a 
new barn was left in ruins, the walls being cracked 
through the very stones that composed them; a 
hanging coppice was changed to a naked rock ; 
and some grass-grounds and an arable field so bro- 
ken and rifted by the chasms as to be rendered for 
a time neither fit for the plough nor safe for pastu- 
rage, till considerable labour and expense had been 
bestowed in levelling the surface and filling in the 
gaping fissures, 
