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the northern portion of the latter a good number of houses were 

 more or less wrecked. It is worthy of note that the railway cutting 

 appears to have modified the shock, as the houses adjoining it, 

 both to the south and north, scarcely suffered. Here, as previously 

 mentioned, the new houses were wrecked as much as the old, espe- 

 cially those near the Hall, to the north of the railway. 



The most ruined portion of this village is on the narrow outcrop 

 of London clay at the margin of the glacial drift, but at the same 

 time all the other structures that were injured are on the latter, 

 and some of these received considerable damage. 



The shock evidently came from the N.N.E., but when it met 

 the break of the Colne river valley it seems to have recoiled, or in 

 part collided along it, thus causing additional destruction in the 

 vicinity of the river. The narrow band of London clay also ap- 

 pears to have had some sort of connexion with the maximum 

 damage done, as in places it appears to have travelled in it under 

 the younger accumulations. This is also suggested farther north- 

 ward, as between Colchester and Ardleigh there are narrow tongues 

 of London clay, the houses on which were injured while those on 

 the newer gravel were not, except in one instance. 



Peldon, Abberton, and Langenhoe Disteict. 



In this locality the structural damages occurred in a rather 

 considerable-sized N.E. and S.W. tract, between the marches of 

 the Mersea and Pyfleet creeks on the S.E. and the valley of the 

 Lagen river on the N.W., and extending from Fingrinhoe on the 

 N.E. to Virley on the S.W. To the N.E., at Homwood, the 

 damages were slight, although it is close to both Wivenhoe and 

 Rowhedge, but divided from them respectively by the breaks of 

 the Colne and Eoman rivers valleys ; while to the S.W. the 

 destructive action gradually decreases until eventually it died out 

 before ToUeshunt Knight was reached. At Virley the action is 

 interesting, as this village is only separated from Salcot by a small 

 narrow E. and W. creek, yet the houses in Yirley, most of them 

 comparatively new, are damaged ; while those in Salcot, which are 

 old and frail, were not affected — all this tract, except a small 

 portion near Fingrinhoe, is on the London clay. To the south- 

 ward of Virley, in a line running about E. S. E. by E. from ToUes- 



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