APPENDIX. 279 



A.D. Yards. 



1833. The great storm in September swept from the point. . 30 



1833. Passing from the High Light towards Kilnsea, the 

 measures of the Long Strand are as follow, viz. 



At the distance of. . 990 yards the width is found to be 60^ 



Ditto at 1760 yards 51^ 



Ditto at 3124 yards . 42 



Ditto from High Light 3624 yards the breadth is 26^ 



And at the distance. . 3784 yards from High Light about 42 

 At this distance the two shores greatly diverge. 



N.B. The long sand-bank which separates the sea from the Hum- 

 ber is now more diminished than is remembered by the oldest inha- 

 bitants, its average breadth being only 44 yards. In 1817 the extent 

 of ground about the Spurn was found to be 100 acres ; in 1833 the 

 quantity remaining was only about 58 acres. 



Circumstances indicate that a breach must take place in some part 

 of this barrier within seven years ; a breach once opened would 

 rapidly augment, and afford such an increased facility for the ingress 

 of the tides as would greatly alter and improve the navigation of the 

 rivers connected with the Humber. (Written in 1833.) 



" Easington, 5th March, 1831. 



" REV. SIR, In compliance with your request I have carefully 

 surveyed what is called the Ten Chain Field, in Easington, abutting 

 upon the sea, which at the time of the enclosure was set out ten 

 chains from the Cliff ; it is better than half a mile long ; but I exactly 

 measured off half a mile, and I find 20'77598 acres=20 acres 3 roods 

 4 perches, which, if doubled, you will have 41*55196 acres=41 acres 

 2 roods 8 perches per mile in 6 1 years ; if divided by 6 1, you will have 

 '68118=2 roods 28 perches full, per mile per annum. 



" I also find the average distance gained by the sea upon the land, 

 in the above half-mile, to be 127 yards P80 foot; and in or during 

 the said 6 1 years, which, if divided, will leave 6 feet 3 inches and 

 T^ths of an inch for each year's encroachment. 



" JOHN FIELD." 

 " To the Rev. Christopher Sykes" 



" P.S. I am convinced that the Parish of Kilnsea has lost land in a 

 much greater proportion than Easington ; but it is my belief that the 



