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evenly as to have scarcely misplaced a single stone or bush, 

 through some 15 feet on one side of it, and five feet on the 

 other. Those who did not know the Warren pretty well 

 might easily, especially if they approached it from the east- 

 ward, walk over the ground that has given way without 

 noticing anything exceptional, so little is the ground broken 

 up or the paths and landmarks disturbed. Going along the 

 path on the right hand side of the railway which leads to 

 the Coast Guard Station, you first become aware of the slip 

 when you reach the steep slope which led downwards on to 

 the lower part of the Warren. Here the path is suddenly- 

 dislocated, and you see it 15 feet below yQu. Descending by 

 a flight of newly made steps rather to the eastward of this 

 dislocation and walking still on to the east, you have on your 

 left hand a raw edge in the shape of a bank, of about 15 feet 

 slope, generally composed of smooth chalk rubble, but in 

 parts covered with large lumps of chalk, which in one par- 

 ticular spot have fallen onto and obliterated the old path. 

 On the seaward side of the main valley the slope is from five 

 to six or seven feet only, and the ground is on this side more 

 broken and cut up than on the other. As I said, the view 

 from the eastward end of the slip is very remarkable. The 

 high ground on either side is not disturbed, and as far as I 

 have been able to make out there is nowhere any thrust of 

 the seaward slopes onto the shore. But some 50 or 80 yards 

 from the foot of this seaward slope there has appeared a very 

 remarkable ridge, now rapidly undergoing destruction by 

 the waves. This ridge consists of (i) loose lumps of chalk, 

 (2) upper greensand in much larger quantities than I have 

 ever seen it on this shore before, (3) gault of both kinds both, 

 dark and light, and (4) a large quantity of what I believe to 

 be clay iron-stone, with large quantities of the solidified 

 iron stone, lumps of which lie in such profusion all along 

 Eastwear Bay. One or two splendid blocks of stone covered 

 with haematite I noticed as I walked along this ridge on 

 Wednesday last. These may have been visible before, but I 

 had not noticed them. The work of the sea in reducing the 

 ridge is shown by the specimens of comminuted chalk and 

 gault which lie before you. The ridge is being rapidly 

 reduced, as I said before, to the general level of the shore, and 

 in a few months will probably be hardly distinguishable. 



