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above, when the clifF again falls in. Within thefe 

 laft twenty years the fea has gained near a 

 quarter of a mile, in fome places on this 

 coaft; and the calulators of the country fay, 

 that lord Bute's houfe cannot poffibly ftand 

 above thirty years. He has taken however 

 great pains to fecure it, by diverting, at a great 

 expence, the land-fprings : fo that he has 

 little to fear but the adiion of the fea, which, 

 tho a rough enemy, is a much lefs dangerous 

 one J and againft this he has endeavoured to 

 guard by facing the precipice in different parts 

 with flone. 



In this cliff between Chrifl-church and 

 Lymington, is found a great variety of foffil 

 {hells. About a hundred and twenty different 

 forts" were coUedted by Mr. Brander, of Chrill- 

 church, and prefented to the Britilli mufeum. 

 He publiflied alfo in 1766, defcriptions, and 

 very neat engravings of them, under the title 

 of FoJ/ilia Ha?itonienJia, Thefe fhells are 

 found about fourteen or fifteen feet below 

 the furface. The flratum above them is 

 fand and gravel. The foil, in which they 

 are found, is a bluilh clay ; and runs down 

 from the gravelly flratum, to a level with the 

 fea; and probably much deeper. In every 



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