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Notes arid Cofnvients. 



COAST EROSION'. 



The hills are shadows, and they flow 



From form to form, and nothing' stands ; 

 They melt like mist, the solid lands, 



Like clouds they shape themselves and g-o. 



The question of coast erosion is always an interesting- one, 

 and to some people a serious one. The amount of land annually 

 wasted around our coast by the ceaseless assailing- of the sea, 

 as shown by the reports of the British Association Coast Erosion 

 Committee, is truly alarming. Messrs. George Newnes Ltd. 

 have just published a very useful summary of the subject, by 

 Beckles Willson, in their shilling ' Storv ' series. In this the 



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Submerged Forest on the Cheshire Coast. 



author refers to the amount of land wasted, from the earliest 

 records, in various parts of the country. Of particular interest 

 to our readers are his descriptions of the erosion of the 

 Holderness and Cheshire coasts, which are illustrated b}' maps, 

 photographs, etc. (one of which, showing the ' submerged 

 forest' on the Cheshire coast, is here reproduced, by the kind 

 permission of the publishers). Particulars of the ' submersion ' 

 of many hundreds of square miles of territor}', and no fewer 

 than thirty-four towns and villages, are enumerated, and we 

 quite agree with the author's opinion that in view of the 



Naturalist, 



