great object is to get the beach just to fall over the top and accumulate on 
the leeward side as well as the windward. 
The Hastings, Eastbourne, and Brighton groynes are good ones; although some at 
, Eastbourne are, in my opinion, too high. 
If the piles or uprights are long enough, sheeting can always be added afterwards 
if necessary. 
a (Signed) E. C. Siu, Colonel R.E., Retired List. 
a December 4, 1884. 
0—The Erosion of the Sea-Coast between Langney (or Langley) 
Point and Beachy Head, Sussex. 
By F. W. BourDILLoN, M.A., Eastbourne. 
The erosion of this part of the coast has been treated of by Mr. J. B. Redman, in 
he ‘Proc. Inst. C. E.,’ vol. xi. p. 162, also by the Rev. H. E. Maddock, in a paper 
read before the Eastbourne Natural History Society in 1875, and published in their 
oceedings. But the ‘ Survey of the Coast of Sussex,’ made in 1587, and edited of 
Beache 
/ Beahe pointe 
years by the late M. A. Lower, shows that some of the conclusions arrived at in 
papers, touching this part of the coast, may require corrections,’ especially as 
ds the Langney shingle beds. This survey (the original of which,” on vellum, and 
n excellent state of preservation, is in the hands of Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, of Lewes) 
vs a large tract, marked ‘Beache,’ where the present shingle beds extend, and 
[2 The conclusions here referred to are confirmed by this Report. Mr. Maddock’s paper, 
Pe, $86.1 that in the ‘ Proc. Inst. C. E.,’ as regards this part of the coast.—J. B. R., 
wary . 
2 Another copy is in the British Museum. 
