THE BIRDS OF BEMPTON CLIFFS. 3 



lie on their backs in the water for some minutes whilst 

 washing- themselves. To the scene add a background of 

 sea, blue sky, necked here and there with white cloud or 

 breaker, vessels passing to and fro upon the errands of busy 

 life, whilst away to the north-west stretches the coast-line 

 past Filey Brigg to Scarbro' and Whitby. Surely nothing 

 finer could be desired by the lover of nature. 



To those who dwell in the neighbourhood of the cliffs, 

 almost every ledge and corner is linked with some memory, 



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Fig. 



-Bempton Cuffs, looking East. 



and the events that have happened there are chronicled in 

 the names bestowed by those who have obtained their daily 

 bread from the cliffs for generations. Any striking feature 

 in their formation has been seized upon and fixed for ever in 

 the attention by an appropriate name. 



Such names as Pidgeon's Hole, Sandy Corner, Shitt'n 

 Shelf, Weather Castle, (H)'ateley Shoot, Coffee Mill, Birds' 

 Shoot, Aud Yoon, Staple Neuk, The Dorr, tell of peculiarities 

 in the shape of the cliffs, or of the birds, many of these having 



