432 REPORT— 1885. 
is 7 feet high, 5 feet wide at beach, and 3 feet at top. Dovetail about 10 feet 
deep and of like section. North of Node’s Point about 200 yards of this has 
been forced away, and is now being rebuilt as before in coursed rubble, stones 
being of no great size. The dovetail buttresses are too few, and placed near 
Node’s Point, round which the wall has a semicircular trace, and has stood 
better than where it is straight, facing east. After rain, the fissures in the 
clay let the water through, and widen in the process, the mass supporting 
a breadth of 10 to 20 feet of the top surface gives way, carrying down trees, 
&c., and slips on to the second terrace of the slope, which in turn slips forward 
against the wall already supporting the water-pressure. This gives way gene- 
rally at the beach level, just above the foundations. A S.E. gale then disinte- 
grates the broken wall, and carries off the lowest portion of the slipped débris. 
10. Pagham. 
By RICHARD B. GRANTHAM, F.G.S., M.Inst.C.E. 
1. Pagham. Iwas engaged in 1875-77 by the office of Woods and Forests to report 
upon the effect upon the property of the Crown of the reclamation of the 
harbour from the sea by a Company, who had erected a bank and sluices for 
the purpose. The following information refers to the shingle-beach outside 
the harbour, on the sea-front. 
2. The coast is generally low flat land, but at one part a large body of shingle has 
been for several years cast up by the south-west wind, and tides set round 
the point of Selsea Bill, where there is still water, causing a deposit of shingle. 
The shingle which has been brought there, is about half a mile wide and 
three miles long at low water. The harbour consists of 750 acres. 
3. The direction of the coast-line is north-west up to Selsea Bill Point. Thence 
for 3 miles it runs north by east to the end of the shingle; in coming from 
the west the current passes Wittering and Harnly, and moves the shingle in a 
south-easterly direction. 
4. South-west. 
5. The south-west, which, as before stated, piles up the shingle, and moves it on 
along the coast towards Bognor. 
6. After tides pass Selsea Bill, the current sets along the coast eastwards, and in the 
Channel the set is from west to east. 
7. (1) Springs range up to 16} feet, and neaps to 12} feet. (2) About 880 yards. 
8. Shingle opposite Pagham Harbour. 
9. ¢. Opposite Pagham Harbour, east of north. d. They vary from 2 inches to 
6 inches and 8 inches in diameter. e. The slope of the shingle is mostly 
uniform, but altered by heavy seas and strong currents. There are no tide- 
marks. 
10. The top line of the shingle bank is neither raised nor diminished except in great 
storms, when the sea front is affected one way or another by storms or strong 
currents. 
12. There are no groynes in any part of the coast within the limits of this report. 
13. There is no material taken from the foreshore that I could discover or hear of. 
14. The shingle bank entirely prevents any of the coast from being worn away by 
the sea for the whole length to which this report refers, d. I could find 
none, and it was not in the memory of any person when the bank did not exist. 
16. Under this head it will be well to describe the harbour and works by which the 
land has been reclaimed. Upon my first visit, as stated in the beginning of 
this paper, to this harbour in 1875, for the Office of Woods and Forests, some 
large wooden sluices had been erected at the end of the stream on the land, from 
which the water, when the tide was out, was discharged into the channel of 
the former course, which I reported upon unfavourably on the next occasion, 
in 1877; and subsequently a new plan was adopted: a tunnel was made under 
the shingle bank to low water on the sea front, in which sluices were placed, 
and they have kept the land reclaimed safer. The water now passes directly 
seawards, at right angles with the coast. 
