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HORNSEA : ITS MERE AND COASTLINE. 



Hornsea, on the Holderness coast, and its Mere, were Visited 

 during Whit week-end by a goodly number of Yorkshire 

 naturahsts. The party monopohsed the accommodation at 

 the Alexandra Hotel, and several were in lodgings in the village ; 

 the numbers being augmented daily by parties from Hull. 



Although the Saturday was not an ideal day from the point 

 of view of the weather, the party stuck to the programme. 

 The geologists took the walk along the cliffs to Aldborough, 

 in the course of which the unusually severe erosion of the cliffs 

 was everywhere apparent, the average annual rate of seven feet 

 per annum being certainly much exceeded in this district 



Photo hy] [F. Appleyani: 



Distant view of Earthworks at Skipsea Brough. 



recently. In some cases huge stretches of this year's young 

 corn were halfway down the cliffs. The party was under the 

 guidance of the Hod, Secretary of the Union, and was successful 

 in securing some typical examples of far-travelled rocks, from 

 Scandinavia, Scotland, and the English Lake District. A fine 

 mammoth tooth was also picked up on the beach south of 

 Hornsea. 



The botanists devoted their time to investigating the flora 

 of Hornsea Mere — the last of the numerous freshwater lakes 

 that once existed in Holderness. The ancient peaty beds of 

 these meres are occasionally washed bare by the tide, and 

 remains of one were seen at Hornsea, just south of the station. 

 They yield traces of typical water-loving plants — a few of which 

 indicate colder conditions than now obtain in the district. 

 Around the present Hornsea Mere the flowers were in wonderful 



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