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ENCROACHMENTS OF THE SEA. 



[Ch. XX. 



is a view of it, taken in 1781, which still represents a con- 



intervenin 



churchyard and the cliff. 



* Some time 



Roman 



or fortification, the walls of which had continned for several 



undermined 



Fig. 47. 



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Eeculver Church, hi 1834 







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firmly cemented into one mass. They were eighty yards 

 nearer the sea than the church, and they are spoken of in 

 the < Topographica Britannica,' in the year 1 780, as having 

 recently fallen down. In 1804, part of the churchyard with 



was washed away, and the ancient 



some 



church, with its two spires, was dismantled and abandoned 

 as a place of worship, but kept in repair as a landmark well 

 known to mariners. I visited the spot in June 1851, and 

 saw human bones and part of a wooden coffin projecting 



* Vol. ii. New ser. 1809, p. 801. 



