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of explosives. Some of the inhabitants attributed the whole cause 

 of the Lindslip to tlieso explosions, whieli may liave shaken some 

 of the dwellings, and cracked the ctiliugs, but they had little or 

 nothing to do with bringing about the extensive landslip which 

 damaged two hundred houses, some of which were entirely 

 wrecked. 



In the Folkestone Herald for 11th March, 1893, the following 

 account is given: — "On Saturday evening, the 4th March, the 

 first indications of any subsidence of the cliff began to manifest 

 themselves Near the detached hospital in the Shorncliffe Camp, 

 immediately above the town, a fissure began to be formed. The 

 cliff below this line of fissure must have begun to slide towards 

 the sea in a compact mass, carrying with it in ruinous descent a 

 large portion of the town, and the beautiful Encombe Park, from 

 the lodge ''gate of which a carriage drive leads upwards in the 

 direction of the gardener's house, which had been recently erected 

 and fortunately escaped damage, as it was just above the principal 

 line of disturbance. Eut immediately below it the stable and 

 conservatory were literally wrecked, immense rents in the walls 

 caused them to lean over as if about to fall ; the ground under the 

 conservatory sank down to a depth of four feet ; an immense 

 fissure and many minor ones ran in an east and west direction, 

 marking the line of the greatest disturbance, which passing out 

 into Chapel Street on the east caused a great destruction of 

 property, and in a somewhat capricious manner, walls in some 

 instances having been cut away leaving the rest of the house 

 intact. Standing in the main street of Sandgate, and opposite the 

 Coast Guard Station, a very pretty residence known as Spring 

 Bouse presented a most extraordinary appearance, reminding one 

 of a toy house that had been accidentally sat upon, and squeezed 

 downwards and sideways. This house has been entirely rebuilt. 

 Towards the west end of the town, at Wellington Place, the earth 

 movements shattered whole rows of houses, some of these rows 

 being cleft through from end to end, here too marking the parallelism 

 with the sea front of the chief line of disturbance. Among the 

 secondary phenomena caused by the landslip was the very remark- 

 able upheaval of the town pavement, the Yorkshire flags of which 

 were forced up like pack-ice on an Arctic coast. This was 

 strikingly the case opposite the Coast Guard Station, whci'e one of 

 the men remarked that whilst the motion continued the sensation 

 " was as though a horse was kicking up the floor of the room." 



In the same way portions of the shoi'c at low water level were 

 upheaved, and a groyne built of railway iron and three-inch planks 

 was crumpled up in a zigzag form. 



Permanent photographs of this and other objects have been 



