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With Mr. Haselwood, Mr. C. F. Denxet agreed, and expressed 

 his belief that a high, wide, and deep embankment, erected along the 

 coast between the other side of Worthing and Newhaven, only would 

 protect the land from the sea. 



Mr. E. W^iLLETi' pointed out that the cost of such an embank- 

 ment would be too much for the town or county to bear, that the 

 country would not be inclined to take the matter up, and that, pro- 

 viding a granite wall was built, the sea would in course of time break 

 through it. The only effectual remedy against the encroachment, of the 

 water was a proper system of groyning. 



Mr. WONFOR referred to the site of old Brighton. His belief, 

 framed from the examination of old maps, was that it was between the 

 Pool and West Street. 



The Ch.\IRM.4N made an enquiry concerning the rate at which 

 wind travelled ; and was informed by Mr. F. E. Sawver that the rate 

 varied from seven to eighty-one miles an hour in this country, and one 

 hundred in India. 



Mr. G. D, Sawyer alluded to the position of the Shoreham 

 Harbour Pier. His belief was that if the Pier ran more to the south- 

 east than it did the deposit at the Harbour entrance would be a thing 

 of the past. 



In his reply, Mr. F. E. Sawver agreed with Mr. Willett as to the 

 position and shape of the groynes, adding that they should be erected 

 in pairs. 



DISCOVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS AT PRESTON. 



Mr. WoNFOR, calling attention to a number of articles on the 

 table, said that on the hills to the northward of Brighton, Roman and 

 Romano-British remains, in the shape of urns, coins, fibula, &c., had 

 from time to time been found. Round Hill-crescent and Wellington- 

 villas had again and again given Roman coins and Roman pottery, 

 as well as Romano-British pottery. Between the Ditchling and Lewes- 

 road, urns and potter)' had often been found, while westward, as far as 



