428 REPORT—1885. 
14. a. Allalong, but particularly at High Cliff Castle, Double Dykes, and Flag Head. 
(1) High Cliff—Cliffs high, and rotten from landsprings. Waste very rapid, 
but checked now. Bute House, built 1760 (? about a quarter of a mile out at 
sea), was in 1830 so near edge it was pulled down, and present house built 
some considerable distance inland, now about 200 yards fromedge. Half of the 
kitchen garden gone in 1875; in 1865 it was intact, and there was a path between 
it and sea. As this is the garden of the o/d house, if an estate map could be 
seen showing the old house, one would get a fair idea of the rate of waste, 
which was due only to the sea till 1867. (2) Double Dykes.—A little monu- 
ment has been moved inland three times in about thirty years. N.B.—This is | 
the point where the waste is most rapid this side of Christchurch, and where 
the main current hits the shore. (3) In 1850 there was a coastguard station 
at Flag Head and a field in front. The whole of this is now in the sea, and 
the ‘ Head’ projects less than the rest of the cliff. 
THE SEA 
Fic. 7,—Sketch of Groynes, near Christchurch. 
15. See 10. a. No shingle is removed. b. There are no groynes but those at High 
Cliff. 
16. None. 
17. Yes, but they are small and only on the edge of the cliffs. Bent grass grows on 
them, but the fir woods are the chief check to their progress inland. [Refers 
probably to the blown sand along top of Bournemouth cliffs (see Geol. Map). 
—W. W.] ; 
18. Papers by Redman and Coode, in the ‘ Proceedings of Inst. Civil Engineers.’ 
7. Sandown Bay. 
By Lieut.-Colonel GARNIER, R.E., Parkhurst, Isle of Wight. a 
1. The flat portion of Sandown Bay, between the cliffs at Shanklin and those at 
Yaverland. 
2. a. Clay; blue slipper, covered with sand and shingle. Shanklin Cliffs, hard sand. 
Yaverland Cliffs, sand and blue slipper. (1) 120 feet. (2) 100 feet. 
(3) 0 feet ; between Sandown and Yaverland. 
3. North-east and south-west. 
&. South-west. 
5. a. South-west and south-east. b. North, because water is smooth in shore, and 
no undertow, which removes shingle as fast as it is deposited by rising tides. — 
ce. South-west. 
6. Tide flows from south-west; ebbs in same direction. 4 
