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on the Encombe estate, a general description of them may be taken 

 first. Here, not far from the bend in the cliff already described, 

 but well advanced to the southward of it, lies a large mass of rock, 

 formerly connected with the clilf above and behind it, but now 

 forming a considerable and precipitous projection, liound this 

 rocky prominence the carriage road ascends with a bold curve to 

 the more level surface behind it, having on the left or western side 

 a water-course coming from above, and passing behind the rocky 

 ground the road crosses on the right, but eastern side of the rocks, 

 a narrow depression passing down towards the town ; the road then 

 reaches an extended platform laid out in lawn and gardens, with 

 the gardener's dwelling, out-houses and glass houses adjoining. 

 The drive continues along a planted ledge under the escarpment to 

 the house. At the rear of this platform a marked precipitous bay, 

 cut back in the Folkestone bed forming the clitf, indicates the 

 position whence active and abundant springs of water issue ; these 

 after being utilized in ornamental ponds, and supplying what is 

 required for the dwelling and gardens, &c., descend by the water- 

 course in the soil of the slope. It was on the crest of this level 

 space and sloping ground, and depressions mentioned, that the 

 most marked displacements of the soil were noticed. The rifts in 

 the soil here showed a vertical face of 10 to 12 feet. Moreover, it 

 was in the dwellings and surfaces of the town below, between this 

 part and the shore, that many of the more serious consequences 

 occurred. The titles of " Spring" House and Cottage, two of the 

 most damaged houses, and "Spring" Lane, with damaged 

 dwellings leading up to Chapel Street and its wreckage, were 

 ominous names as predicting a cause tliat operated to their dis- 

 advantage and the surrounding calamity. 



Other spiings of water, along the strike of the Folkestone 

 bed, similarly aided the movement, the evidences of which 

 extended in a N. W. direction as far as the Military Hospital, a 

 distance estimated at 1,100 yards, where they abruptly ceased, 

 apparently from sufficient drainage at the time of construction 

 having been effected ; and in another direction more westward, as 

 far as the road leading upwards by Littlebourue Lodge, the limit 

 of buildings in that direction. 



Water and gas pipes were broken and the pavement upheaved 

 along the main road at the base of the slope, as well as at other places 

 in the line of dwellings higher up. Where the land was free from 

 buildings along the slope, the ett'ects of the movement were made 

 apparent by fissures, depressions, and elevations in various forms 

 and degrees, mostly across the apparent line of movement from 

 above. In the roaclway, a little above Littlebourue Lodge, eight 

 or nine such fissures were observed at various distances from each 

 other, with different degrees of displacement of the soil between 



