456 APPENDIX 



I.— THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 



The chief conditions of which the scientific angler has to take note in the 

 Enghsh Channel are the following : no great depth of water, particularly 

 inshore ; strong and regular flow of tides between the open Atlantic and the 

 narrow German Ocean; great variety of shore soil and sea bed, with alternating 

 stretches of rock, shingle, sand and mud. Taking in order the half-dozen 

 Channel counties, that include Kent and Cornwall and all between, the 

 following distinctive coast features may be enumerated : — 



Kent. — Beach shingly; cliffs chalk; several harbours; the Stour the 

 only considerable estuary. 



Sussex. — Beach shingl}-, with breakwaters ; cliffs sandstone, but much 

 P , of intervening low foreshore, as at Pevensey and in Brighton 



the Channel district ; at low tide, long stretches of sand, with parallel low 

 Counties. reefs of rocks ; on!)- three harbours and the Arun estuar)'. 



Hampshire. — Low, sandy shore; cliffs considerable only near Bournemouth; 

 two considerable estuaries — Southampton Water and the joint estuary of Stour 

 and Avon at Mudeford salmon run ; much of the shore under lee of the Isle 

 of Wight, therefore calm and shallow seas and curious reflex tidal action. 



Dorset. — Low, sandy shore, except close to Lulworth Cove, where are 

 high cliffs and rocky sea bed. One considerable harbour, Poole. 



South Devon. — Sandy shore ; sandstone cliffs ; rocky sea bed ; estuaries, 

 Exmouth, Teignmouth, Dartmouth, Plymouth. 



South Cornwall. — Rocky shore ; high cliffs, with fewer breaks of sandy 

 beach than further east ; comparatively deep water close inshore ; estuaries at 

 Looe, Fowey and Falmouth ; clay-water in neighbourhood of Pentewan clay 

 works ; increasing influence of Atlantic swell. 



It would be easy, though serving no useful purpose, to enter in greater 

 detail into these features of the coast line and sea bed. The importance to 

 the systematic sea -angler of even the few particulars here enumerated 

 is very considerable. He knows that a rocky coast should give him 



