6 TOPOGRAPHY OF BLAKENEY POINT. 



Before leaving the subject, a remark may be added as to 

 the name Marams (sic) ; this, under present conditions, would 

 appear to be a misnomer, as Marram Grass (Psamma) plays 

 no conspicuous part in the vegetation. Blown sand is not 

 transported to this part of the system, and nothing of the 

 nature of dune formation now exists. The question whether 

 dunes may not have existed here in bygone times, so that the 

 name really possesses historic justification, is referred to on 

 a later page. 



THE HOOD. 



A third of a mile west of the Marams is a small cluster of 

 lateral banks, largely masked by a double-headed sand dune of 

 horse-shoe form. In the concavity of this hill a little salt 

 marsh is concealed notable as the only locality on Blakeney 

 Point for Juncus maritimus. 



The most westerly of this group of laterals, after fringing 

 the sand hill, continues right out into the estuary for a distance 

 of nearly half-a-mile, where it ends in a terminal pointing West 

 instead of East a most exceptional phenomenon. The probable 

 explanation is that the great length reached by this bank has 

 made it subject to the scour of the tide as it runs off the flats. 

 In any case this bank is much wasted, and its crest only 

 slightly raised above the general level of the mud. On its 

 Eastern side, near its extremity, is an extensive salt marsh of 

 some interest, named the " Samphire Marsh," owing to its being 

 resorted to by local samphire gatherers (Fig. 1, S.M.). 



THE LONG HILLS AND THE HEADLAND. 



Beyond the Hood the main beach continues its direction for 

 a third of a mile, where it gives off another lateral ; its general 

 direction then undergoes a landward inflection of about 30 

 degrees, and at the same time widens out into an intricate 

 complex of laterals w r hich collectively form the Long Hills and 

 the Headland. 



As already stated, two approximated banks on the East bear 

 the Long Hills system of sand dunes, whilst the Beacon 



