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Deal and beyond towards Dover, and notes very little change in 

 the beach opposite the town of Deal since his last survey, except that 

 generally the shingle has been progressing in a !N^.E. direction, 

 proceeding apparently from an old accumulation between Walmer 

 and St. Margaret's Bay ; the latter district having lost much of its old 

 beach shingle. In some recent examinations of the coast of Dover, 

 Mr. Dowker (who has visited this shore on numerous Greological 

 and ]!^atural History expeditious during the last forty years) 

 reports that he can remember the time when a good beach existed 

 at the base of the cliffs all the way round to Copt Point, and a 

 large accumulation of beach and talus of cliff some feet in height 

 existed near Lydden Spout. Xow the walking along this coast is 

 almost impracticable from the absence of beach, while at places large 

 blocks of hard chalk reach down to the water's edge, forming an 

 almost impassable barrier, except to experts in clambering over rocks. 

 Mr. Dowker is led to conclude that these rock masses were formerly 

 hid by accumulations of beach and shingle, n-hich have of late 

 years been entirely swept away, and probably a great portion of it 

 redeposited just Avest of the Dover harbour. In this case it would 

 seem that the great waste of shore line has here been the result of 

 the removal of old shingle beach, and no material derived from the 

 West substituted. 'Near Lydden Spout high groins have been 

 erected, but they are destitute of beach shingle now. Mr. Dowker's 

 first observations on this part of the coast were made in 185.*, in 

 company with the late Mr. Mackeson, of Hythe. 



Captain Gordon McDiikin has reported his observations on the 

 Dover Cliffs for the last three years. 



N.B. — Both Mr. Dowker's and Captain McDakiu's reports on 

 " Coast Erosion " are printed in extenso with the British Associa- 

 tion transactions for 1895. 



Geological Photographs. 



Photographs have been taken by Mr. Dowker, showing two 

 junctions of chalk, and Thauet beds, Pegwell ; two upper chalk of 

 Pegwell Bay, with numerous small faults, one drift bed over the 

 chalk, Pegwell. 



Geological Photographs have been taken by Captain McDakin. 



Mr. Dowker's Photos and observations were not completed 

 until after the date they should have been presented to the British 

 Association in order to appear in the last year's record. 



