48 PAPERS, ETC. 
Chr Curbaries between Glasten am 
the Den. 
BY MR. W. STRADLING. 
a persons who have been in the habit of 
visitiing Burnham, and the beautiful strand 
from thence to Brean-down, must have observed the 
continual changes of the sands on that coast. 
Although the strand, upwards of five miles in 
length, is still one of the finest in the kingdom, 
I recollect when, for a few years, it was nearly 
double its present width; and when a boy, I was 
taken in a chaise by my mother from Bridgwater to 
Stert Point, where there was a small inn for the 
accommodation of parties who visited the spot. 
That point is become an island, and at high tide, 
large vessels can now pass over what was once the 
carriage road. 
This continual alteration of the features of 
the coast, has led many to suppose that at no 
very distant period, the sea flowed uncontrolled over 
the immense plain from Burnham, Berrow, and 
Brean, to and around Glastonbury, thus forming 
