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along which we have passe 1, it is being destroyed 

 by freshwater action, the effect of which is to cause 

 enonnons masses to be thrown downwards towards 

 the sea, there to be devoured by the waves. A walk 

 along the beach from the Harbour towards Dover in 

 the early Spring shows the amount of damage ; I 

 have seen thousands of tons of debris lying about, 

 the effect of one whiter 's work, but by the end of the 

 Summer it has ah 1 been washed away again. Not 

 much more than a dozen years ago there stood a 

 cottage and garden on this end of the Warren ; in 

 fact, I believe it was once a gentleman's residence, 

 with a road down which one could drive to it, but 

 notice of ejectment was. served upon the last tenant 

 by Nature herself in the shape of successive openings 

 in the walls, and he wisely quitted it. None too 

 soon ; now you will only find traces of its walls, and 

 perhaps one or two lingering specimens of its garden 

 productions. Decidedly the Warren is not the place 

 to build upon. 



You will want to know about the botany of this 

 portion of the Warren. Well, there are Brambles 

 of various species known only to " Splitters " of the 

 botanical ranks ; climbing over them occasionally some 

 magnificent specimens of the Tufted Vetch (Vicia 

 Cracca) with its long blue clusters of blossoms ; 

 then there is Eyebright (Euplirasia officiiialia), Cath- 

 artic Flax (Linuui catharticum), Eestharrow (Ononis 

 arvensi-i) and Lungwort (Pulmonaria offidnalis) ; 

 the Centaury (Enjihroca Centaurhim and E. pitlchella), 

 and Yellow-wort ( Chlora perfoliata) with the Gentian 

 (G-cntiana cauipestris), and here and there scattered 

 tufts of Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) with its half 



