president’s address. 
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has been since 1838 at the rate of fourteen feet per annum, 
that would be more than double the rate of encroachment 
at the Blakeney entrance. 
The Harbour which also gave access to Salthouse had 
a fine deep anchorage in it in those days of two and two-and- 
a-half fathoms at low water, where we now have to put up 
with four to six feet. It must, however, have been much 
exposed to N.W. winds, as the point had not formed the long 
spit which now protects the anchorage. 
The third map is Donald and Millies of 1797 ; it is the first 
map, as distinguished from a chart I have met with, that was 
done from an actual survey ; this map gives the beach due 
north of Blakeney Church as 330 yards further seaward than 
1890; but due north of Morston the sands are at the same 
distances as to-day, and the actual entrance almost as now, 
but the point has grown out in a S.W. direction exactly 
three-quarters of a mile in the last 100 years. The tremendous 
N.W. gale of December 29th, 1897, which flooded Cley, 
Salthouse and Wiveton, swept this ridge of shingle nearly 
flat, and although it has grown up again to a certain extent, 
it does not afford nearly the same protection to the harbour 
and banks enclosing the marshes as it did. 
The last map is from the latest Ordnance Survey, and 
shows a Harbour gradually silting up from the causes I have 
alluded to, but still a happy hunting-ground to the Norfolk 
Naturalist. 
