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owing to storms having swept off the sand. The stones are 
mostly met with high up, near the sea-bank, where the sand is 
dry and easily blown away; and not so much at low water, 
where the sand is wet and consequently more stable. 
As to the existence of the stones themselves, Mr. Benjamin 
Simons, a well-known resident of Sutton, writing to me on the 
subject, says, ‘There are quantities of stones all along the coast. 
At times they lie in beds, so that you could quickly filla can; at 
other times they are more scattered, and yet again at other times 
they are covered with sand.’ Another correspondent from the 
same place, Mr. W. Milgate, one of the Sutton boatmen, speaks 
of abundance of stones, and says that ‘ years ago people used to 
lead them away to boon the roads with; now they are not 
allowed, so of course it accumulates,’ and he adds ‘ there is none 
to be seen now, the great storm of November 29th washed about 
half the hill i so covered the stones up.’ A further corres- 
pondent, the Rev. E. W. Watson, the Vicar of Chapel St. 
Leonard’s, speaks of the stones being abundant on Chapel shore 
(which I can corroborate), ‘with amber, jet, ammonites, and 
belemnites’; and Mr. Alfred Harker, F.G.S., of St. John’s 
College, Cambridge, and the Geological Survey of Scotland, while 
speaking generally of the care needed in dealing with boulders 
found loose on the beach, or’ on the surface of the country, 
remarks that he knows but little of the Lincolnshire coast, and 
says—‘I take the Holderness coast, which know better. 
Norwegian boulders are plentiful on the beach in some places, 
and I have no doubt that they belong to the immediate neigh- | 
bourhood. . Going intoanewdistrict . . . Ishouh 
particularly stonat isolated groups of boulders, whether on the 
beach or inland. I do not feel competent to discuss the matter 
for the neighbourhood of Sutton, ete. Of course, there is no 
As regards the Lincolnshire coast 
boulders, Mr. Harker calls attention to the epcunleed/ of the 
stones being brought where they are by the ‘ powerful tidal 
scour (from N. to S.).’ I cannot, however, agree with him on 
this point, at all events not to any great extent, and on stating 
this, he wrote again, as follows :—‘ The boulders on the Lin- 
colnshire shore are, in my view, ‘probably derived to a large 
extent from Holderness.. This tidal action cannot, I think, 
properly be left out of consideration. Of course, there may be 
__ local circumstances at the localities ee have stated, which 3 Imay . 
turalist. 
