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THE EASTERN COAST OF ENGLAND 



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now within reach of the tide may hereafter lead us to an 

 exact estimate of a change of level if there be one in pro- 



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mip-ht 



anticipated 



other for ascertaining whether the land was rising, sinking, 



Fig. 44. 



Eccles Tower as it appeared after the storm of November 1862, from a drawing 



by Kev. S. W. King, taken from nearly the same position as fig. 43. 



or stationary. As the tide rises eight feet at Lowestofi, and 



it becomes a question whether in the 



sixteen 



omer 



course of four or five centuries its mean level at any given 

 point on this eastern coast may vary sufficiently to explain 

 the present position of the ruined church at Eccles relatively 



mark 



I am not aware that we have 



any recorded data for confirming or invalidating such an 

 hypothesis. 



has suggested that sand-dunes in 



M. E. 



Beaumont 



Holland and other countries may serve as natural chronome- 

 ters, by which the date of the existing continents may be 

 ascertained. The sands, he says, are continually blown in- 

 land by the force of the winds, and by observing the rate of 

 their march we may calculate the period when the move- 



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