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dicular cliffs of sand. When, at 8 a.m. on Octo- 

 ber 30, 1901, I stood in the slime at the foot of 

 Hock Cliff, I saw the bore advancing from beyond 

 Awre as a line of white breaking water, stretching 

 quite across the channel, its summit being lower 

 than the top of the cliffs of sand. The height of 

 the wave seemed to be about 2 feet or 2% feet. 

 To the left of where I stood commenced the now 

 disused channel following the east, or Frampton 

 shore, which lower down became a deep trench. 

 At 8.10 a.m. the bore, having reached the upper 

 entrance to this channel, sent a wave swinging 

 round to the east into it which travelled down as 

 a bore, while the main bore passed me at 8.13 a .m ., 

 much diminished and enfeebled, on its way to 

 Newnham. That the bore at the latter place would 

 this morning be a feeble affair, as had been the 

 case on the preceding evening, I could well believe 

 when I saw how the " head of the flood " was 

 squandering itself in driving another wave and 

 stream of water down the Frampton Channel. 

 Indeed, the fishermen tell me that sometimes a 

 bore coming up this channel meets that which I saw 

 travel down it, and that a boat which finds itself 

 between them is in a dangerous predicament. At 

 8.35 a.m. I saw a small bore travelling across the 

 sandbank which separates the Frampton Channel 



