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been fine and open. In Kovcmbcr, 1872, a large fall of the East 

 Cliff destroyed two houses. Tt had been preceded hj forty -eight 

 days very rainy weather. 



Very remarkable falls of the Cliff took place early in 1877, 

 when the eastern end of the Folkestone tunnel, under Martello 

 Tower number one, was so far displaced that it fell in, and 

 at the same time, but one mile and a half nearer Dover, a large 

 portion of the Cliff fell down, filling up the deep railway cutting. 

 Soon after this accident, the writer went over the scene of this 

 disaster with an intelligent Coast Guardsman, who said he saw 

 this last slip happen, and exclaimed to his companion, "Why, 

 the Cliff is coming down!" when like a big gun going off — so 

 loud was the report — it fell as a straight bar, filling the cutting, 

 overwhelming two watchmen on duty at that part of the line, and 

 the upper portion passed right over into the sea. Mr. Griffiths, 

 the -well known fossil collector, states that the shore was forced up 

 twenty feet in a long ridge like mound, owing to the pressure 

 exerted by the subsiding undercliff. 



In the years 1882 and 1883, large slips of the cliff partially 

 filled the cutting on the western side of the Abbot's Cliff tunnel, 

 dislocating the railway service for some days, and on the 

 23rd February, 1891, a fall of the cliff took place about 

 300 yards east of the Cornhill Coast Guard Station. 



On the 4th November, 1892, a slip of the Gault Clay took 

 place near the Warren Inn, carrying away the road and part of the 

 garden. About the same time one of the heaviest falls for many 

 years took place from the Lydden Coast Guard Station, carrying 

 away the steps leading down to the shore. The last fall recorded 

 up to the early part of 1894 was from the Cliffs about a mile east 

 of Dover, and near the boundary stone of the War Department, 

 which was displaced at the same time. 



