The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-11-26 00:00:00

AN HOUR ON THE CHESIL BRAWL

Stray thoughts, sights, and obtocta which aro oocosionally
- cast up on this beach ot beaches.

Perhaps I ought warmly to call this remarkable ridge
"the beach of " se there are two others somewhat
similar, but mach longer; one is near Memel, in Polish
Promote, and we aee on the map it is not unlike this
with the little ma inside and the Baltic outside ,•
the o la in North America, and is some hundreds of
miles in length, (analog old California, with the Pacific
Ocean for its outer sea and the Gulf of Oaliforela forming
the Fleet or little sea, and, of Gonne, only oomparable in
It. coneguerthion. the late gale, like the longest day.
bee passed away, and the most rnagniSowst of hare, with
It. most beautiful of all curvet lies calm before as, un-
broken, and unintercepted, extending from this dreary
rock-bound coast of Portland on the south--east, towards
the west far alarm its shores to the hills of Devon, till
land, sky, and ma are all blended and last lathe ham of
the atmosphere. It is of objects from far distant shores,
from ships lost far and new, treasures from down out of
the secret and sunless retreats of the bills and valleys of
the ocean, where are animals and piants whose homes are,
and where =human eye can seethe., oast up by the angry
waves, torn train their hornes and exposed on this desolate
shore—it to of them I would briefly speak, for as • poet
othing is lost on him who sees with an eye that feeling
gave;
" For him there's • story in every Meese, and • picture
in every wave."
What • striking contrast the sea now Ls to what it was
only • few days ago—liks old age, changed from anger into
calmer and better thought, it now his like the regular
heavy breathing of a tired and over-exerted sleeper's
breast Now, from over this broad expense of me, over
It. often interiority blue waters, the wandering eye looks,
and, as in the sight of some lovely picture, the eye
naturally searches for and turns towerds a human figure,
so, even now, it instinctively nets on where its nearest
sympathies ore. There, like something living and human,
are the little worlds of ships with their freighta of our
fellow creatures, and as we watch their sombre and
shadowy forms recede and fads away below the horizon,
what an intermingling of sad and happy thought. arise
mid fall within it. I Whither are twirl:g, going f" (Siding
away into far distant countries, through and
storm, homeward sad outward boona , leaving three
arrest and deans! behind, ions, Wear APIA to be
be-
belt Swell following swell through this vast se• la ,
precipitated and broken at ear feet, yet in its nature on- ,
changed, although estiszatel, to be renewed for that
purpose for which it was intended' so the ceaseless and
various vicimitudea of our nature, honer, fears, Joys, and
sorrow', follow each other through the agitated sea of our
Urea to be renewed into other waves, calm and storm,
cloud and sunshine, till that time when the sea shall give
ep Ler dead. However, I sen pottlag out of ray *writ.
The tense.s the Obeli Beach were Grit brokers of from
the permit reeks by some power sad thes tolled about in
the ma for yam and years, sad the slow but constant and
eseesiess Mies of the waver washed and disintegrated
them late, m we now see them, waterworn and surfers-
meek masiagh to be painted on. This mighty spumy le
triaging these OMB Into sand. Embedded in them
often age NM the remains of former worlds of fossil
calmals,rat plants that hare settled down and become
In lieparent strata said have been carried here
from rnalai mU.. by the force of the tide and waver.
MALTare the turret shell (turritelle), often in
1111063111 &Mai its many whorls and
wt.imime of the cidarix wood, brachoi-
Etas wr enssisektse. sweet whichl have Lately pronto lb.
Jensywatrost Meesem Loadoa. • very Sae specknea,
like • or with foramina apertures to
admit at llZkvaporirs, by which the animal was supposed
to
uir=iltittet** "of frerwaseretUtr=e•TfU en cud.
I
from a child's toy to • "decay some • her of Wild or[
I silver from • wrect whisk hotwased awayis., eV of
which resume motion wie. bs owls noreshim, Irs sows
, noted wrecks on this bomb. Austad of the dm* of the
ma are met op mestere, sad pleats whiek soli only to
those onaccquainted with them ors West wonderful and
marvellous in the exirmah bat Is Itmintrohare r2orslisti
are extremely rare. Of these I will twisily waft. that
rare and besatifsi kaiherlike seephybe the pirmalerie
=4MI motto& heat Thai. apb, we tad** br as 1
/rustrisfrikasta, hawing • reticulated or sot-like
serfaoh each asll bolas Um habitation of a polyps, the