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These rocks are broken by numerous small faults with a 

 displacement of only a few inches, and this makes them fall an 

 easy prey to the destructive forces. 



My personal observations at Kingsport, Starr's Point, 

 consist of several careful measurements during a period of five 

 and six years; and I find the rate of erosion is from five to six 

 feet per year. . I placed in the ground iron pipes, and measured 

 the distance to some conspicious object, such as the corner of 

 a foundation of a house or a large tree. 



In July, 1917, at Kingsport, an iron pipe was placed in the 

 ground, one hundred feet from the edge of the cliffy and near a 

 large oak tree; and on August, 1923, it was only 44 feet from the 

 edge of the bank, an erosion rate of 56 feet in six years. This 

 gives a rate of 9 feet, 4 inches, per year, which is too great to 

 be an average, as at this particular locality the underlying rocks 

 are very soft. At other places than Kingsport, measurements 

 will average nearly six feet per year. Near the mouth of the 

 Pereau River, six feet a year seems to be a fair average. 



At Starr's Point and Evangeline Beach careful measure- 

 ments show six to seven feet per year. Bathing houses at 

 Evangeline Beach that were six feet or more from the edge of 

 the Cliff in 1912, fell to the beach the following spring of 1913. 

 At Starr's Point the writer well remembers when a party con- 

 sisting of about a dozen persons climbed a stack on the beach 

 and there ate their lunch; today it has almost entirely dis- 

 appeared. The same can be said of a number of these stacks 

 along the coast. 



A well-known Kings County land surveyor told me that 

 in 1884, he surveyed lands then belonging to one Hueston, now- 

 owned by Major Henshaw, at Pereau. The orchard of this 

 property which was resurveyed by the same person in 1920, 

 had lost 210 feet, six rows of ap'ple trees had disappeared and 

 each row was 35 feet apart, making a loss of nearly six feet 

 per year. 



About thirty years ago there appeared in the Wolfville 

 "Acadian," an advertisement of a lot of marsh land for sale, 

 near the mouth of the Cornwallis River. That lot does not exist 



