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are found ; tho I never faw them of any fize ; 

 except upon the coaft. 



About two, or three miles farther, the cliff 

 fails ; and the coaft becoming flat, forms a fin- 

 gular fpit of land, which runs two miles into the 

 fea, and leaves but a narrow channel between 

 it, and the ifle of Wight. At the end of 

 it ftands Hurft-caftle. This little peninfula, 

 as it may be called, is fo narrow, that it 

 fcarce, at high water, exceeds two hundred 

 yards in breadth. In high tides it is much 

 narrower. The whole is covered with loofe 

 pebbles. The fide towards the ifland is a 

 bold fhore; beaten into ledges, or terraces 

 of pebbles, by the violence of the waves. 

 The other fide, which is fhelfrered, is un- 

 dulating, marfhy, and undetermined; forming 

 the water, when the tide flows, into a fmooth 

 land-locked bay. The Ikirts of this bay, 

 well fheltered from the tide by Hurft-beach, 

 are commodioufly formed into falterns, where 

 great quantities of excellent fait have been 

 made; tho the trade has of late fallen off. 

 The fquare, bounded receptacles which re- 

 ceive the brine, are a glaring injury to the 

 beauty of the fhorp. 



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