MINUTES 



MAY 



112. 



DISTRICT. 



SEA- CLIFFS. 



J 12. 



MAY 28. Yeiterday morning, fet out, early, 

 for Ingham fair by way of the fca-coaft. 



Made the coaft at Munfley, and kept it to 

 Haibro'; fometimes riding above, fometimes 

 below cliff. 



There being a large fleet of fhips, clofe in 

 land, {leering to the northward, with a gentle 

 breeze upon the quarter, and the morning mild 

 and pleafant, the ride became delightful ; 

 though fometimes rendered awful by the height 

 of the cliff, and the narrownefs of the path 

 immediately upon the brink of it ; more efpe- 

 cially as the cliff itfelf is of an earthy crumb- 

 ling texture, and liable to " fhoots/' \\ hereby 

 many acres are every year fwailowed up by the 

 fea/ 



Mr. Baker (who rode with me) fhcwed me 

 the remains of a field, which men, now living, 

 remember to have been twelve acres ; of 

 which there is now only a corner of two or 

 three acres remaining. Had this piece lain 

 parallel with the line of the cliff, every rod of 

 it mii ft have long fince difappeared. 



The lofs is the greater, as the foil is rich 

 and prolific in afuperior degree. Noble crops 



rife 



