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point, so that one could walk on to the slip ; but, when I saw it 

 a chasm had opened by the slip falling away from the main cliff, 

 which is now (November lyth, 1900), about 5 feet wide and of 

 considerable depth. On the loth of December, when I again 

 saw the place, this chasm had been nearly filled up with rubble 

 which had fallen from the main cliff, no doubt through the heavy 

 rains. 



At the western extremity of the slip, which was at first only 

 about 80 yards from the wall, the ending is very indefinite, and 

 fresh cracks are being gradually formed, and have (November 

 iyth) extended 20 yards or so further west in the last two 

 months. Towards each end the outer edge of this strip forms a 

 cliff of 20 or 30 feet high, and here in all probability a fresh 

 subsidence of the strip will take place before long, as cracks are 

 opening and widening ; but in the middle, on the contrary, 

 cracks, which two months ago were i to 2 feet wide and 8 or 

 10 feet deep, have entirely closed up, leaving hardly any 

 trace. 



When I photographed the landslip in September, I placed the 

 legs of the camera across a chasm about 1 8 inches broad, and in 

 the excitement of the moment, forgetting its existence, stepped 

 into it myself, which impressed it on my mind, as well as my 

 body ! This chasm has, with others, so closed up that the crack 

 is not now more than an inch or two wide. 



There is no cliff below this middle portion of the May slip 

 as at the ends, and one can easily walk down on to the older 

 landslip terraces below. On visiting the place on December 

 loth, 1900, I found that the western end of the May slip had 

 already much altered in character since November lyth, when 

 the above was written. The cracks have opened out greatly 

 and several falls have taken place, to such an extent that I 

 considered it hardly safe to venture on to the slip itself, as the 

 whole of that end was so much broken up, and apparently in 

 very unstable equilibrium. More rubble had also fallen from the 

 main cliff, partly covering the gate shown in the photograph, 

 but the middle parts of the slip were unchanged. 



