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TOPOGRAPHY OF BLAKENEY POINT. 
navigation rendered difficult. Furthermore, as a result of this 
encroachment the waters of the Glaven tend to cut back the 
saltings on the South bank of the channel — an operation that 
seems likely to persist. 
Passing on now to the state of affairs between the Marams 
and the Hood. Much shingle is driven across this section, but 
the fans are non-permanent, as the bay is an open one liable to 
be swept by the wind and tide from the landward side. As a 
consequence, a large part of the talus is driven into the corner 
by the Watch-House bank of the Marams under the influence 
of S.-W. winds — a residuum going in the opposite direction 
towards the Hood, drifted by winds from the S.-E. quarter. 
What holds for this section applies in large degree to that 
between the Hood and the Long Hills — the bay here being 
also open and unprotected. 
The general result is, of course, that these sections of the 
bank are being steadily deprived of shingle and undergoing 
attrition, so that they are in effect becoming danger spots in the 
system — places at which something of a drastic nature may be 
expected to occur. 
A serious aspect of the matter is that no Suceda bushes are 
able to establish themselves upon these sections. As we see 
from the Marams (Fig. 12), the fans of talus during 
intervals of quiescence are the great places for the establish- 
ment of seedlings. In consequence of the scour in the open 
embayments these fans are not permitted to remain, and 
thus the fringe of the bank is kept continually on the move, 
with the result just stated, that there is no spreading of Suaeda. 
As the Suaeda is the most important factor in arresting the travel 
of shingle, the employment of the word serious in this connec- 
tion is not without justification. 
The Plant Habitats. 
It will be evident from the foregoing that Blakeney Point 
affords a great variety of different kinds of habitat for the 
establishment of vegetation. There is the main beach, which, 
