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THE NATURE BOOK 



A ROCK TOWER ISOLATED BY THE WAVES: " OLD HARRY," SWANAGE. 



Yorkshire ; on 

 the sout hern 

 shore forming 

 the promontory 

 and diffs of St. 

 Alban's Head, 

 and on the York- 

 shire coast the 

 m a g n i fi c e n t 

 headland and 

 cHffs of Flam- 

 borough. Follow- 

 ing its inlying 

 edge that sur- 

 rounds the 

 Weald, we trace 

 the " basset " to 

 the shore at 

 Do\-er where the 

 gigantic mass of 

 Sha k c s p e a r e's 

 Clift towers aloft, 

 and again where 

 it touches the 

 Channel, we see 

 Beachy Head 

 The sea takes advantage of every weak rising majestically from the waves. But 

 point in the strata of the cliffs, so that for the durability of this harder chalk 

 every seam of soft earth or rock forma- formation, the Isle of Wight would prob- 

 tion is attack- 

 ed and eaten 

 away by the 

 waves, leav- 

 ing the harder 

 and more re- 

 sisting rocks 

 standing ; and 

 it is in this 

 way that the 

 bays, capes, 

 and promon- 

 tories have 

 been formed. 

 Looking at a 

 geological 

 map of Great 

 Britain, we 

 can trace the 

 hard " bas- 

 set," the up- 

 turned edge 

 of the chalk 

 f () r ma t i o n, 

 ruiniing diag- 

 onally from 

 Dorse t to 



WAVES UNDERMINING A CLIFF. 



