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O N the 19th of July lad, I had the Pleafurc of 
feeing thofe ftupendous and amazing Precipices 
which bound our North-Eaft Sea-Coaftjand rodefome 
Miles betwixt them and the Sea. I can allure you, I 
was highly delighted with viewing them ; and, as 
Sir Richard Steele fays, by the Defcription of ‘Dover 
Cliffs , Whoever looks upon thefe Precipices, and is 
not moved with Terror, muft either have a very good 
Head, or a very bad one . 
Thefe dreadful Heights are equally dangerous to 
come nigh, above or below 5 as they are fo frequently 
tumbling down, and as often wafh’d away by the 
raging Billows : And altho’ they are 20, 30, and in 
feme Places 40 Yards and upwards in perpendicular 
Altitude, yet I am credibly informed the Sea has got 
of the Land at lead no Yards in lefs than 20 Years 
Time for fome Miles on this Coaft. 
The various Strata , which make up this long 
Chain of mountainous Cliffs, muft be greatly enter- 
taining to every one, who takes a Pleafure in look- 
ing into the many Changes, which the 'Earth un- 
doubtedly has undergone fince its firft Creation. 
Vegetable Mould, Oaz, Sands of various Kinds 
and Colours, Clays, Loams, Flints, Maries, Chalk, 
Pebbles, <&c. are here to be feen at one View beau- 
tifully interfperfed 5 and frequently the fame kind 
many times repeated ; as if at one time dry Land had 
been the Surface j then the Sea 5 after, moraffy 
Ground ; then the Sea, and fo on, till thefe Cliffs 
were railed to the Height we now find them. 
What 
