2 - Notes and Comments. 



is of a Falcon's eyrie in North Yorkshire, and is one of several 

 illustrations to 'Northern Notes on British Birds,' by Mr. Eg-g-le- 

 stone. Among-st the various subjects dealt with in these two 



Falcon's Eyrie, Yorkshire. 



volumes are Geologfv, Antiquities, Birds, Plants, Entomology^ 

 Folk Lore, etc. The ' Transactions ' are cheap at half-a-crown 

 each part. 



COAST EROSION. 

 In a paper recently read to the Institution of Civil Engineers, 

 Mr. E. R. Matthews, Borough Engineer of Bridlington, gives 

 a useful summary of the rate of erosion of the coast of York- 

 shire from Flamborough southwards. He also gives a very 

 concise history and details of the cost of the various groynes 

 and other protective works that have been erected on this part 

 of the coast for the purpose of saving the land from the ravages 

 of the sea. 



COST OF PROTECTING THE COAST. 



Mr. Matthews suggests that the erosion of the cliffs between 

 Bridlington and Spurn should be checked as follows : — [a) by 

 the erection of 340 long low timber groynes, i.e., 10 to each 

 mile of coast; [b] a sea-wall, similar to that designed and carried 

 out for the Bridlington Corporation, erected along the entire 



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