The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-08 00:00:00

"That she did gle me, lala, prxy tau
Fr all (ho world like Cutler's ',Wry
Upon a kWh, Lam me, md tam me uot.'".

—Oar Ors Fireside.

IT'S Tan SYSTNN MI I RATED, MID NOT TOO, MIL
FlNN.—Bunce himself had been on friendly terms with
Phineas, and they two had had many discussions on
matters of politics Bunco taking up the cudgels
always for Mr. Turnbull, and generally slipping away
gradually into sonic account of be own martyrdom.
For lie bad been a martyr, having filled to obtain any
redrew, egainat the policeman who had imprisoned
him so wrongfully. The People's Banner had fought
for him manfully, and therefore thr.re was a little dis-
agreement between him and Phineas on the subject of
that great organ of public opinion. And no Mr. Bunco
thought that his lodger was very wrong to sit for Lord
Brentford's borough, subjects were sometimes touched
which were a littlo galling to Philtre. Touching this
promotion, Bunco had nothing but condolement to
offer to the new junior lord. "oh, yes," rid ho,
in answer to an argument from l'hineas, "I suppose
there meet be lords, as you eall 'em ; though, for the
matter of that, I can't see as they is of any mortal use."
" Wouldn't you have the Government carried our
" Government! Well ; I suppose there meat be
government. But the less of it tho better. I'm not
aniintt government—nor yet against laws, Mr. Finn ;
though the lets of them, too, the better. But what
does these lords do in the Le,.rnment ? Lords indeed!
I'll tell you what they do Mr. Finn. They woke ;
that's what they do I Tiey 'rotes hard ; black or
white, white or black. Ain't that true? Whoa
You're • 'lord,' will you be able to wote against Mr.
illidlntl to rya your very soul?" "If it coines to •
yues,tion of aoul•saving. Mr. Ilunce, I shan't save my
p •at the expense of my conscience." "Not if you
knows it, 74n niers. Bet the worst of it is that • man
gets so thick into the mud that be don't know wheth
he's dirty or clean. You'll have to wok' as you're told",
and of mouse you'll. think it'a right enough. Ain't
you born among Parbaniont gents long enough to know
that that's the way It rpm r "you think uo honest
man can be a member of the Government?" "I don't
say g!ilLi, but I think lionosty's deal easier awnY
from em. The feet is, Mr. Finn, It's all wrung with
no yet, and will be till we gets it nigher to the
peat American model. If •1° or man gets into Par-
liament —you'll rouse Inn, Mr. Finn, but I cell'a
you a poor man*" "Certainly, as a member ot puha.

• " hiviclaugt 0 NtLacu.'

ment I am a very poor man." "Jut.), and then."
fora what do you do? You rea and lays yourself out
for government ! I'm not saying no how you are any.
ways wrong. A man has to live. You hu winning
ways, and a good physognotoy of your own, and aro
as big as a life-guardsman." Phlnesa so ho hurl
this doubtful praise laughed and blushed. "Very
will; you makes your way with tho big wigs, lords
and earls and them like, and you gets returned for a
rotten borough; you'll escort, me, but that', about It,
I ain't it—and then you goes in for government I A man
may hero a mission to govern, such 114. Washington and
Cromwell and the Ito o' them. But when I hears of
Mr. Fitzgibbon a.govenaings why then I say., ' it
all.'" "There must be good and bed. You know."
" Ws'vo got to change a deal Yet, Mr. Finn, end we'll
do it. When a young man as has liberal feelings gels
into Parliament, he shouhrnt. be Pupped up aid
brought into tho governing business just because Ite's
poor and wants 'salary. They don't do it that way in
the States ; and they won't do it that way here
long. It's the system as I haUs, and not you, Mr.
Finn. Well, good-bye, sir. I hope you'll like the
governing business, ant find it unto your bealth."—
Front " l'hineas Finn," by Anthony Trollom is St.
Paurs Alaga:,l44 ouu of the ls.t of our shilling
monthlies.

A SONO OF ANGIOLA IN IIEAVEN.
Fl..uer.,—thut 1..1.e died upon fiwout,
l.nlkd hy the rhythmic dancing heat
hcr g 11.. men wader ',m—
t.°. will I whew-telt such ailing
A. 110 cr, through thick 100d..4 wring,
Betwixt the daylight awl the dew,
The Bird uho. Icing no nem knows—
The v vim Lbat usketh all olihi through,
Tell. to the
For SallIC11.1.1•CO I found,
Well filled it leave., and .t Med of sound,
Well th,wert.l, with re.l fruit marvelluwi;
Awl 'twit( the 'bluing trunk. ..add Hit
Tall knights atul silken malt', .r cit
With fares bent Lod &mono.—
TN re, In the }lout thereof. ..id crowned
With woodbine and untaructp,
My Love I found.

/One ram tialkoil—ah, well I
lly heart leapt up tor jo)I (hi. !
Then Ai hen I called to her her lame—
Tlio 11211 a. that like • pluvant thing
lle.u's lin. rerneniber—niiiimiurlip4

At once scrams the award she rune
Full fain dm licensed, icy own dear Maki.
And asked ever **she mine.
Whims bait thou staged r
When) hest thongh stayed r—rho spked ma though
The long years were an hour ago;
lint I slake not, nor an•wcreil,
For, looking in her .)es, I saw.
A light not lit of mortal law •
And in her elear checks' changeless red.
And sweet, umhaken sneaking found
That in tins iilace the Hour, aI.TO dead,
bound.

Timo

I, vrell tione,"—she laid—. thee,
ID Love, that thou art none to me,
To (hi, 'own garden gloriouv ;
Now truly ahaq our lite he sped
In Joyalitv and all iroodlibod,
Yor here all thing* ore falr to us
And none with burden it ppmt,
And none Is p-or !a.m.,
For bete I. rest.

"No formiest Future Wan the sky;
mourn jut here, sill, dull dead or,
diroodoi ahapes of Yesterday ;
Reba ist the rontinir end the Mat
The newton life lianas GACII fast
lii one unsearyitur
That darkens not; f“r Sin I. shriven,
And lhath from out the door. hi tn,d,
And hero la Hanson."
At " Heaven" ehe meant—and lifted up
Iler fair heed hte • flower cup,
With rounded mouth, and etas aglow;
Then set I lipa tei hers, and felt
Ail, God—the hard loin fade and melt'
And put things change to yenned ',hoe;
The imam sitar ipdring of the hints otatort.ke ;
The lit leaves lati.,:hed--sky shook, and
on .11114)d —And WAIL

And now, 0 Flowers,
—Ye that indeed are dead—
Now for all watt mg hoar.,
Welt arn I comforted ;
For of a surety, nee, I we,
That, without den harms
Of tears, or weariness,
My Lady, verily, &welkin me ;
Se that until with lint be,
For my dear Lady's oho
I outright fain I. mak°
Out from my loin a idlow, and intake
Grief for a leaden gamma 'intorno;
Kneeing that I, at last,shall stand
In that gene ganlenaand,
And, to the MMlllig of my dew tnre's land,
For Let the and the nitary. A. D.
—Saint Pants ler Sepkuilrer, cdi tat led Annum!, Ttettope.
TIM Count Bays. The Chesil Bank Ix perhaps,
one of the roost a•tonishing formations in England—
not no much because it is wholly unique in character,
for there sre'other somewhat similar bank. at Lowestoft
near Barnstaple, Slapton, tho Looe-bar near Holetone
(at Hurst Castle), and in other places; but because of
It. immense silo and extent, beside which it has name
most remarkable peculiarities in its formetion, which,
no far as we are aware, are nuique. Slaters to Wi y•
mouth and Portland can hardly have failed to be struck
with its remarkable appearanc' e am it joins the Isle of
Portland to the mainland. It Is an onerannes mane of
shingle, extending ter seventeen miles, from its origin
at Bridport, to its abrupt termination against the cliffs
of Portland. For about two miles of its extent from
the former place, until it reaches the end of the cliffs, it
I. thrown, like ether banks, against them ; but at this
p Ant it el-admit, rises in height, and far the rest of its
length hes the appearance of an immense, and exceed-
inglr im.ll.fnmoml rmilormy embankment. Front its
origin, fcr seven miles, until it reaches Abbateltury, it
Is joined to the meinland, though risit,g high ab 've
it—
at the latter place, its dimenninns ore five hundred feet
wide, and about twenty-five fe, t high. From Abbots-
bury to Portland it atilt gradually increases in sir', and
at Portland it is Aix hundred feet wide, and forty feet
high; but for the exteet of tight portion of ten miles, it
leaves the land, and in thrown up, se it were, in the sea :
while, between it and the hand it a long estuary called
the Fleet, oommuniclting with the ma at Portland.
Hence, the appearance of tho Chesil Bank, as seen from
an elevated point. such as St. Catherine's Hill at
A bbotebury„ is truly astonishing. It is like RD immense
railway in the sea, and it curved with • gentle and per-
Lastly regular course from north-west to solithmest,
until it strikes land at Portland. Its formation thus in
the middle of the sea is due to the exietence of a sub-
marine hod of Kiturnendge clay, which forms • kind of
shelf, on which the shingle it piled up by the wand.
On the landaide of the Fleet, which as about a mile
wide, ate seen the remains the old cliffs ant mast-
line, which probably exieteil before the bank was
Loma The sides of tie bulk are very steep, and con-
sequently the sea breaks on it with great violence,
making it • dangerous coast for shipwreck.. The
similar bank at Hurst Castle in formed in the same way,
by the piling up of etones by th- wave, on a hod of clay;
and in each case, according ta Lyell, this bed of clay is
sometimes exposed to sight in severe storms. In such
eases, although the waves remove temporarily immenao
MUMS of shingle, and carry them to the land-side, yet,
very curiously, the bank retains its exact Position. and
the Fleet is never filled up. Not long ago, the writer of
this paper, in company with a friend, traversed the
whole of the bank, to examine it well, We met out
early one morning from Bridport harbour, taking, as
our first day'a excursion, the minion from Bridport to
Abbotsbury, and resting at the latter place for tho
night. The next day, we proceeded along the second
half of the bank to Its termination at Portland. It was
exceedingly hot weather ; and perhaps our readers know
what it la to walk on shingle! We will only say, that
during our two day'. walk of seventeen miles, and
especially on the second lay, when we were out at em,
and could nolonger go off the bank to the green meadows
to rest ourselves, we wished that It were possible to boil
our pebbles, in some such way as the famous pilgrim to
Loretto, whom penance it waa to walk thither with peas
in his shoe.! The excursion, however, well repeid no,
for the views obtained fcom various points along the
route are exceedingly beautiful. The old ruins at
Abbotsbury ; the gigantic stones of the old cromlech ;
the little chapel of St. Catherine ; the swannery, where
the good monks are said to have kept thousands of
swans; 'lardy's monument on the hill near—all along
the gentle curve of that coast are :ever-varying points
of interest. It would appear Reif the Chesil Bank most
have been in former times of less bulk than it is at
present, for there is an account given us, in an old
Saxon Chronicle of 1099, of a heavy sea that broke over
the bank, and flooded the fields on the other side.
Leland also, writing in 1546, and Camden, in 1590,
speak of it as being broken away by sem wuhirer over
It daring south. west gale.; whereas, at present, no
storm., however violent, appear to bay* very much
penuanent effect on it. The latest remold of a very
severe storm is that of November 1824, whims groat
tlyasal.ii, 61,,, 414,r...0ns au 4. 43••
and • curious circumstance is recorded of a large sloop,
which was driven on to the bulk, and actually carried
by the violence of the waves to its summit, where the
Grew appear to have coolly disembarked, and walked
into Weymouth. Next day, they drew her down on the
other side into the Fleet, and so sailed round Portland.
l'orbaps this I. the only record of a circumnavigation of
the ialand. But although even the most violent storing
thus hardly affect the Chesil Bank, except by carrying
away shingle, which is soon replaced by the sea, yea thia
very operation is accompanied by two remarkable
phenomena. The first may be observed by any one who
happens to be on the land-side at the time. If near tho
bank he will find himself enveloped In a perfect shower
of shlnglo ; so that, in the event of a shipwreck on the
bank, it!. almost impossible to venture to the relief of
the stranded mew. The other phenomenon consists in
the blowing up of the bank at vbrions parts. Any one
who travels along the btnelaide'will be at once struok by
along sucomaion of depressions or gnllies In its silo;
In fact, the land-aide of the bank hal, at intervals, last-
the appeareueo of having been quarried for shingle a.if cartloads of stoma lel e been removed hero and there
to mead roads. 'f his curious result nrimed from peroola-
tiou oh water through the mass of the bauk, whereby, in
great atone, an inaneuse pressure is brought to bear on
the weakeet portion'', and suddenly melt • portion will
blew no, carrying hundreds of tons of shingle to the
percolation of water through the bank
seems to extend sometimes further inland, for it is said
that near fiwyre village there is an loterinittent salt-
spring, ebbing end flowing with the ma. Perhaps one
of the moot canton circumstances connected with the
' astonishing maas of shingle is the variation in the she
of its pebbles. Any person who ghoul.' travel along It
from west to east, from Bridport to Portl sod, could not
fail to be struck with the beautifully gradual increase in
the shit of the component atoms of the bank. Where
the bank commences, near Bridport harbour it consists
of small pebbles of tho else of a pea, nilse:l with sand
from the -Burton Cliffs, These pebbles increase in she
as we travel along the bank, end at Abbotebnry they
have attained the general aim of large beans ; while on
arriving at the end at Portland, they will be found to be
as large as apples, and many even much larger. There
is • well-known story of Dr. Buekland, who was said to
be such a good geologist, that if he were blind-folded,
and set down in any swl of the country, he would he
able, on removing the bandage, and examining a atone
er • clod of earth, to indicate the part to which he bad
been brought. Similarly, it in 11414 i, with reference to
this gradual change in miss of the stones of the Chesil
Bank, that it is so uniform and well marked, that
smugglers landing on the bank in the darkest lined can
determine their position with precision by merely taking
up a pebble. Thim variation in she of the pebbles is
also the cause of the curious change in the noise of the
warn, which ill hes our oar isuniudia —uu opaaparing

Ii eir sound at Abbotabury, for Instance, with that ,
Portland. At the former place, the sound made by the
waves is of • hieing character, while at Portland it is a
loud and prolonged rear. This change, though apparent,
and esen striking to any ear at all times, is wonderfully
Increased in • heavy gale of wied. We have never
anywhere oleo head the lame Iselll4llYr deafening roar
that we get at Pertlaud in a stores, w heti the immense
bank is overwhehried by li:eskers, and, on aeweiut of it.
m.o.:prime tow: rls the ei a, reds Woes, breaks upon it
almost •t right angle', to its sorbets. This, aided by the
siee mid hardness of the stones at lids point, produces a
sound peculiarly harsh aid grating. Now, as to the
cause of this wonderful phenomenon. All the pebbles
are brought by the 61.1 ware led by storm-waves from
the corset to the west lota, eu Exmouth and Isj me
Hence, It is remarkable that the largest lobbies
are carried furtliel I Apparently, two separate causes
tend to produce the result, First, we must remember
that the strongest currents during the usual south-west
wind.; will act wore effectively out at We, or towards
l'ortland, than near the middle of the bay at Bridrort,
and will consequently carry the largest lobbie, to Port-
land, while the smallest remain thrown up at Brisiport.
Secondly, if wo remember that, in comparing the force
of the waves upon large and email pebbles, the larger
05155 will gain most is momentum, while the smaller
have a proportionally larger surface to be acted upon,
It will be carried furthest by viol-et waves, while the
smaller will ho carried highest, and will therefore soonest
be thrown up out of the reach of any further action of
the sea. All caleammus and easily worn pebbles are
soon reduced to mind, and peas round Portland, so that
the bank consists of only the Isardeet kinds of stones,
such as hint, jasper, ; and in consequence of the
relative action just mentioned, it will be found that,
while the small pebbles at Brielport and Abbetsbury are
round and globular, those largest pebbles near Portland,
in consequence of their being most exposed on the sine
face to the waves, are generally fist—a peculiarity
noticed also at the come near Budkigh, from which
most of these pebbles are derived. And this brings us to
another curious thing about this Chesil Bank—namely,
the source from . which the limeense mass of stones is
derived. Ills said that the country-People affirm thata
reward of fifty pounds will be given to nosy one who can
tied two pebbles exactly alike, but they don't say who
will give the prize The fact ir, that when we ezamlne
carefully along the bank, as the writer of this paper has
done, we shall find that the pebbl, a may be classed under
throe or four heads. Mr. Goode, the engineer of the
Breakwater, has written • small pamphlet on this sub-
ject, and by comparing his recount with our own °beer-
wo are led to assign the pebbles to the followiog
classes: (I) The great majority of the stones are
evidently Malik flints and glints from the greensand,
which caps most of the hide between Exeter and Wey-
mouth. The chalk strata at Beer Head are the most
western in England, and no flints have ev, r been found
further west than this point, 'except in one or two
instances in Como wall, where (lints have been found,
Reseeding to De la Beebe, spread over fields near the
sea, and aupposed to have been brought as ballast by
the old Pbeenician traders from the opposite coast of
Gaul. On the Chail Bank !hero are a vaist number of
these flints, easily distinguiebable, the chalk flints by
their dark colour, and often by adhering silicate of lime;
the greensand flints by their lighter colour, and particles
01 sand coubeeldesl in them. Seem people have imagined
that those flints might possibly be derived from the
flint-bands which occur in a chertz form in the eolite of
Portland ; but, apart from their difference in physical
qualities, whieh would lead any one who saw them to
separate them at once from this source, it roust be re-
membered that all these pebbles come from the went,
and could not therefore be derived frees Portland. (2)
A good many of the pebbles of the Chesil Bank are
composed of red sandstone, generally marked by various
spots of red, brown, and yellow. These are traced to
their source at Budleigliaalterhau, where they occur on
the beech in company with (3) jasper pebbles, and which
are all brought down by the river Otter from Aylesebeare,
and other hills in the interior of the district, On the
Chesil Bank, these jaspers are (reqsuntly mistaken by
ungeolegical 'leiter% for pebbles of Devonian limestone,
such as those whiffi we see on the beach et Torquay;
and the resemblance is indeed sufficient to excess the
mistake. (1) We have also a certain proportion of green
and red porphyritie pebbles' ouch as thoso ehich secur
iu the conglomerate cliffs of Torbay and Dawliah, but
which are not thence derived, corning, on they do, from
the Ileavitree conglomerate, near Exeter. In no inst-
ance that we have been able to make out have we any
class of pebbles derived from any point west of Exeter.
For example, we find no chlorite from the Start Point--
no serpentine from the Lizard—all is derivod from cliffs
or hills between Exeter and Brislport ; and of many
cliffs oven hero, no pebbles exist, beirg, in the Sales Of
the softer strata, soon worn to used, and so carried
round Portland. Such is • brief acciiunt of the chief
features of the Chesil flank. As we have said, its greet
peculiarities are its enormous mass, an! its being formed
rend passing through the sea, separeto from the land. It
has • very beautiful outline when seen from the summit
of the Miff at Portland, or viewed as an embankment
from Ithe level at Chesilton. It ourpuses all other
shingle-barks with which we are acquainted, which are,
for the most part, merely bars at the mouths of rivers,
or enclosing fresh-water lakes, as at (lantana and
Slapten. That of Ilurst Castle, at the mouth of the
Solent, and opposite Yarmouth, is the only example,
but on a smaller scale (so far as we know), of • true sea.
bank formed on • submarine ledge or shelf of clay, and
rising gradually in sizo from west to east, and deriving
all its component pebbles from the double action of
tidal currents and storm-bre tkers. —Chanaterii Jountai.