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which is driven fiercely on this coast by the north-west winds. 
These Eolian beds are of any recent age down to the present 
day ; there is no evidence of any of them being of greater 
antiquity than the Morfa Rhuddlan beds; yet it is probable that 
they were always represented along this shore, and played their 
part in aiding or checking the changes which submergences or 
elevation from time to time tended to produce.” 
The rapid inroads of the sea, whether on the drift-covered 
coasts of the eastern or western shores of England, proclaim the 
same story. The destruction of land has been so great within 
the limits of historic times as to be a matter of serious national 
importance. It is not the fury of an occasional storm we have, 
however, most to fear, it is rather the insidious ‘‘ underground 
waste of the land,” which is the main cause of the so-called 
‘fencroachments of the sea” 
