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not a single life either of man oi- beast was lost in the movement itself. The 

 ground, extending from the base of the clifls for about a quarter of a mile in 

 extent, was moved forwards to the sea 10 or 15 feet, and in some places even fur- 

 ther. The shingle beach was in several places tilted up at a considerable angle 

 towards the cliff instead of towards the sea ; and the bed of the sea several hun- 

 dred yards out, and to a length of more than a quarter of a mile, was lifted up 

 in a broken ridge of perhaps 40 feet in height, which enclosed several lakes of sea- 

 water, which in some places was five fathoms deep. The foundation of this ridge 

 is green-sand converted by the sea-water into mud, and it was strewed at the top 

 with rocks and boulders covered with pink coral lines and dark seaweed. Imme- 

 diately under the clifls were several pools of fresh water. The land along the 

 coast was disturbed to a distance of more than one and a half miles. The writer 

 of this description thought, very justly, that this convulsion was not caused by 

 an earthquake, and the tales of fire which at the time was said to have burst from 

 the ground, may be set down as belonging to those tales of wonder which are 

 usually rife on occasions like this. Instead of an earthquake, he thought that 

 the slip was due to the wet, which after a very rainy season had filtered through 

 the superincumbent chalk and sand to the blue lias clay below, and which, being 

 thus loosened from its basis, slipped away and descended, thrusting forward the 

 land in its front, and heaving up the ridge in the sea somewhat in the same man- 

 ner as a moraine is thrust up by the pressure of a glacier. Probably the most 

 extensive slip of this kind with which we are acquainted, is the one which took 

 place in Switzerland in 1806, at the Rossberg, of which an excellent description 

 may be read in Mr. Murray's Handbook, and of which the effects are very evident 

 to any one who ascends the Rigi by the railway from Arth, on the lake of Zug. 

 Nor is it difficult for those v^'ho perform this journey to foresee that similar dis- 

 asters may take place hereafter in the same neighbourhood. Returning to Marcle 

 Hill, we find that Fuller improves upon Camden's account by saying, that for 

 three days the hill seemed to be in labour, shaking and roaring, to the great ter- 

 ror of aU who heard or beheld it. It threw down all things that opposed it, and 

 removed itself to a higher place. Baker says in his chronicle that a prodigious 

 earthquake happened near a little town called Kynaston, in 1571 (not 1575). On 

 Feb. 17th, at 6 p.m., the earth began to open, and the hill with a rock under it, 

 making at first a great bellowing noise which was heard a great way ofiE, lifted 

 up itself to a great height, and began to travel, bearing along with it the trees 

 that grew upon it, the sheep folds and flocks of sheep abiding there at the same 

 time. In the place from whence it was first moved it left a gaping distance of 40 

 feet broad and 80 ells (300 feet) long. The whole field was about 20 acres. Pas- 

 sing along it overthrew a chapel standing in the way, removed a yew tree planted 

 in the churchyard, from the west unto the east. With the like force it thrust 

 before it highways, sheep-folds, hedges, and trees ; making tilled ground pasture, 

 and again turning pasture into tillage. Having walked in this sort from Saturday 

 in the evening till Monday noon, it then stood still. I will only add that I believe 

 the yew-tree here mentioned is still in existence, and that the bell of Kynaston 



