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By NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A., F.E.S, 



URING a violent south-westerly gale which blew 

 from February nth to ijth, 1899, the tides 

 were unusually high and much damage was 

 done in many places in the South of 

 England. At Weymouth Harbour the tide 

 was stated to have been higher on the 

 morning of Monday, February ijth, than 

 had been the case during the past 20 years. 

 Some damage was done in Weymouth and a 

 ship was driven across on to the rocks at Osmington Mills from 

 her anchorage in Portland Roads. 



One of the most striking effects of the gale was in connection 

 with the beach and road which run from Greenhill to the 

 Preston Coastguard Station. This ridge of beach is, like the 

 neighbouring Chesil Bank, raised a few feet above high-water 

 mark, though not to the same extent as the latter, and is some- 

 what over a mile in length and about 40 yards in breadth, 



