[5] The Author may probably, on a future occasion, communicate all the circumstances connected with the above, as they will afford an amusing, interesting, and instructive lesson, corroborating the testimony of the Poet,

“From little causes great effects arise.”

[11] See Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, vol. 1, p. 146.[12a] See Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, vol. 1, p. 146.[12b] Ibid. p. 149[13a] Vide Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, vol. 1, p. 149.[13b] Upon this coast the swells continue greater three days after the new and full moon than when the latter is in her meridian.[14a] See Carey’s Astronomy, p. 137.[14b] Ibid.[14c] Ibid.[15a] See Carey’s Astronomy, p. 137.[15b] Ibid.[16a] See Lyell’s Geology, vol. 2, p. 25.[16b] Ibid.[16c] See Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, vol. 1, p. 150.[17] See Lyell’s Geology, vol. 2, p. 18.[19] Vide Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, vol. 1, p. 151.[23] See Lyell’s Geology, vol. 2, p. 34.[24a] Treatise on Astronomy.[24b] Lyell’s Geology, vol. 2, p. 36.[25] See Lyell’s Geology, vol. 2, p. 24.[26] Rennell on Currents, p. 58.[28] See Lyell’s Geology, vol. 2, p. 37.[29] See Newton’s Optics, p. 163–167.[32] The tide flows along this coast from north to south, and ebbs south-east, but exhibits great variation in different places; thus in the Lynn Deeps the tide flows south and ebbs north-east.[33a] See Appendix.[33b] Ibid.[34a] See Appendix.[34b] Ibid.[34c] Ibid.[34d] Ibid.[34e] Ibid.[34f] Ibid.[34g] Ibid.[34h] Ibid.[35a] See Appendix.[35b] Ibid.[36] Stevenson on the Bed of the German Ocean or North Sea.—Ed. Phil. Journ. No. v. p. 44. 1820.[37a] The Dogger Sands, in the North Sea, lie in the direction of a line drawn from Scarborough, in Yorkshire, to the coast of Jutland, terminating within fifty miles of the latter place.—On the 5th of August, 1781, an obstinate engagement took place immediately off this Bank, between the English and Dutch Fleets.[37b] Ed. Phil. Journ. No. v. page 44. 1820.—Stevenson on the Bed of the German Ocean or North Sea.[37c] Ibid.[38a] Button, vol. vi. p. 424.[38b] Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature, vol. 1, p. 161.[39] See Appendix.[40a] See Appendix.[40b] Lyell’s Geology, vol. 2, p. 54.[41] The term shallow is applied by the Author to any hollow or cavity which may occur in the beach, and frequently designated a low or cane.[42a] Groins are formed of piles and wooden planks, or of faggots staked down, and they are used either to break the force of the waves, or to retain the beach.[42b] See Appendix.[43a] See Appendix.[43b] Ibid.[44] This was observed by the Author in June, 1844.[45a] Taylor’s Geology of East Norfolk, p. 10.[45b] Ibid.[45c] See Appendix.[47] See Appendix.[48a] Communicated to the Author by J. Brown, Esq., F.G.S.[48b] See Appendix.[48c] Ibid.[48d] Ibid.[49a] See Lyell’s Geology, vol. 3, p. 338.[49b] This vessel rests on her starboard side, and part of her ribs are visible on the ebbing of the tide in calm weather. Every soul on board met with a watery grave; and since that period the Ranger cutter foundered in a heavy gale on the outermost bank, and went to pieces, about a quarter of a mile to the south-east of the same gap, and every person on board experienced a similar fate.[50a] These sand hills are composed of dry sand, bound in a compact mass by the long creeping roots of the plant called Marram (Arundo Arenaria); and such is the present set of the tides, that the harbours of Cley, Wells, and other places, are securely defended by these barriers.[50b] See Appendix.[50c] Ibid.[50d] Ibid.[55] The knowledge of the different strata composing the cliffs is derived from an interesting publication by the Rev. C. Green, Minister of Bacton Chapel, entitled the History, Antiquities, and Geology of Bacton, in Norfolk, published in 1842. The indefatigable and learned Author being about to publish a work upon the Geology of Norfolk generally, with an account of the Fossils, Bones, &c., deposited in its different strata, the minute details of their stratification has been avoided, as considered unnecessary for this publication.[67] This valuable variety of grass would, the author thinks, become more serviceable, if, on attaining its full growth, known by the ears containing the seed being ripe, it were mown down. The advantage derivable would cause the blades to spring up much thicker than they now do, and the seed being threshed, might be sown in any locality requiring its presence; and it evidently appears to be the easiest and most certain method to propagate it.[70] It is scarcely necessary to observe, until the legitimate beach is formed, stones, sand, &c., must not be taken away, and afterwards only with discrimination.—See Appendix. Eccles.[71] Examples observable at Eccles, the cliffs opposite the lower Lighthouse at Hasborough, off the high lands Hasborough, Ostend Point, Walcot, a point off a remnant of the parish of Keswick, off the Watch-house, Bacton, Cox’s Point, Mundsley, Trimingham, Cromer, &c., in some instances scarcely ever any sea-beach materials accumulate, and the water reaches the cliffs at half-tide, especially upon the springs.[74] Loudon, in his EncyclopÆdia of gardening, informs us, the Pinus Sylvestris, commonly but erroneously termed Scotch fir, can be obtained much cheaper, and of a better quality, in Scotland than in England. It appears the soil is more congenial, particularly in some districts, where the wood equals in texture that grown in America.[109] In this eBook the errata have been applied.—DP.