VOL. vm.] BLAKENEY POINT TERNERY. 251 



The shingle-spit leaves the shore near Weybourne, on 

 the north coast of Norfolk. From here it continues for 

 nearly eight miles, diverging very gradually from the 

 shore-line to end in a complicated hook bent landwards. 

 This is one and a half miles from the opposite shore. 

 On the accompanying cut (Fig. 1) the shingle is marked 

 in soHd black. The dunes are marked with perpendicular 



Fig. 1. THE HEAD-LAND, BLAKENEY POINT. 



Area occupied by Common Tern E. Great Sandy Low. 



Settlement in July, 1914. tt ^i t 



_,.,„,.,,,; H. Glaux Lagoon. 



Isolated Clutch of Eggs. 



Tern Dunes. K. Long Hills. 



D. Dunes. (Beacon Hills.) 



L. Dunes. (Long Hills.) 



lines and the marshes with slanting lines. The area 

 enclosed in dots indicates the ground occupied by the 

 Common Tern in the summer of 1914. 



From Cley onwards the shingle-bank is practically 

 straight. At the termination it bends landwards and 

 faces nearly due N.W. for a distance of over half a-mile. 

 Then it bends right back and is parallel with its origkial 

 direction, finally ending in two small hooks again bent 



