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By NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A., F.E.S. 



f.iarf December 13th, 1000.) 

 (Note added September 3rd, 1901.) 



( AST summer my friend, Mr. J. A. Pepys, who was 

 staying at Weymouth for a short time, told me 

 that he wished to show me a very striking, though 

 not extensive landslip which had taken place 

 just beyond the River Jordan at Preston, and I 

 thought it deserved some record in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Field Club, especially considering 

 the prominence now given to the subject of 

 coast erosion, in which landslips form a great feature. I should 

 like here to acknowledge my thanks to Mr. Pepys, as without 

 his information I should probably never have heard of the 

 landslip. I went early in September and took the photo- 

 graphs, which are here reproduced (Figs, i, 2), from which it will 

 be seen that the strip of land has sunk down almost vertically, 

 carrying with it at about the middle of its length a piece of wall, 



