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ENCROACHMENTS OF THE SEA 



[Ch. XX. 



more 



miles 



yards broad, and twelve feet high, presenting an inclined 

 plane to the west. This singular bar consists of a^ bed of 

 rounded chalk flints, resting on " ' "~ ~ 



submarine 



base. The flints and a few other pebbles, intermixed, are 

 derived from the waste of Hordwell, and other cliffs to the 

 westward, where tertiary strata, capped with a covering of 



undermined. 



from five to fifty 



storm of November 



mov 



mark 



manors 



same time many 



West 



opposite side of the bar. At the 



pasture land were covered by shin __, 



over, near Lymington. But the bar was soon restored m its 



old position by pebbles drifted from the west ; and it appears 



from ancient maps that it has preserved the same general 



outline and position for centuries.* 



Mr. Austen remai 



high tides concur with a gale of wind, that the sea reaches 



undermine them 



earthlnoTItoneT But the waves are perpetually employed in 

 abrading and fashioning the materials already strewed over 

 the beach. Much of the gravel and shingle is always travel- 

 ling up and down, between high-water mark and a slight 

 depth below the level of the lowest tides, and occasionally 

 the materials are swept away and carried into deeper water. 

 Owing to these movements every portion of our southern 

 coast may be seen at one time or other in the condition ot 

 bare rock. Yet other beds of sand and shingle soon collect 

 and, although composed of new materials, invariably exhibit 



t 



Hurst 





undermined 



a series of years at the rate of a yard annually. 



Within 



memory 01 persons now nvn 



* Rodman, as cited, p. 315. 



f Rob. A. C. Godwin-Austen on the 



Valley of the English Channel, Quart, 

 Journ. G. S. vol. vi. p. 72. 



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