486 ON THE BED OF THE GERMAN OCEAN 



Swansey. 



North 

 Wales. 



Liverpool 

 and Dublin. 



Solway 

 Frith. 



eluding the eoast of Ireland on the one side, and 

 on the other, the shores of Wales, Lancashire, 

 Westmoreland, and the counties of Dumfries, 

 Kirkcudbright, &c. where neither the rocky coasts, 

 and exposed situations of the Islands of Anglesea, 

 Man, Copland, Craig of Ailsa, and the Islands of 

 Cumbrae, nor the sheltered and alluvial shores of 

 the Bristol Channel, are exempted. A striking 

 example of this has been obligingly communicat- 

 ed to me by Charles Stokes, Esq. Secretary of 

 the Geological Society, which occurs off Swansey, 

 where the receding tide exposes a large deposite 

 of trees, within 60 yards from high-water mark. 

 The encroachment of the sea upon the Welch 

 coast, is briefly noticed by Arthur Aikin, Esq. 

 in his interesting Journal and Mineralogical Tour 

 through North Wales, p. 229. &cc. in which he 

 enumerates several examples of this along the 

 broken and irregular shores between the Severn 

 and the Mersey. Even the granitic coast at Du- 

 blin Bay, and indentations of the sandstone shores 

 at Liverpool and Lancaster, and the more extensive 

 Frith of the Solway, are also subject to the un- 

 varying destructive eflfects of the sea upon the 

 land. 



Were proofs of the generality of the wasting 

 effects of the sea upon the land to be taken from 

 foreign countries, we should find them no less 

 striking. Whether we look to those coasts and 

 islands which are washed by the expanse of th 



