the name of Hordle cliff. The fummit of 

 it is a fine carpet down, and is much fre- 

 quented in the fummer-feafon, by company 

 from Lymington, for the fake of fea-air, and 

 fea- views. The fides of this cliff, as was 

 obferved, frequently fall in ; and after one of 

 thefe founders, as they are called, the maffes 

 of ruin form a bold, rough bank, againft the 

 fea, which fecures the coaft from another 

 founder, till that body of earth is wafhed away, 

 and the land-fprings have loofened the earth 

 above, when the cliff again falls in. Within thefe 

 laft twenty years the fea has gained near a 

 quarter of a mile, in fome places on this 

 coaft j and the calculators of the countiy fay, 

 that lord Bute's houfe cannot pofTibly ftand 

 above thirty years. He has taken however 

 great pains to fecure it, by diverting, at a great 

 expence, the land-fprings : fo that he has 

 little to fear but the action of the fea, which, 

 tho a rough enemy, is a much lefs dangerous 

 one ; and againft this he has endeavoured to 

 guard by facing the precipice in different parts 

 with ftone. 



In this cliff between Chrift-church and 

 Lymington, is found a great variety of foflil 

 ihells. About a hundred and twenty different 



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