The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-11-13
IRON AL the Year Round.l
sWAIEQWED ny THE SEA.

NAV. No doubt the sea bas always "e',
vashing away orr erunbipg ellis, ana
many traditions still linger OF sncien, cues,
and vast tracts Of land. forever buried be-
meath the wave. Let us recount few.
On the coast II Yorkshire, from Fiam'
borough Head 10 Spurn Point, the damage
done by the sea for ages has been very ex-
aeusiye. Professor Phillips estimates the loss
pf land af the rate OF about two and quar-
Ter wards per year on an average. Many
viilsges have been washed from It's shores,
which are now forgotten. On some
of our old maps we may read such
items as "lartburn, washed away Dy
the sea-; "Hyde, lost In the sea (;
Here stood Auburn, which was washed
away by the sea-" The Rev. X. WI,
ton, a.. A., has composed gracefuii
little poem on the latter place. III is shu
e hat the ruins OF Auburn are still to be seen
opposlte Auburn House. Bridlingt0n Quay
has been subjected to many rayages; In
1857, after stormy weather, The whole
wss scene Of Tuin-houses being de-
stroyed and the north pier severed from
The land. Houses have frequently been
taken down TO save them from being
swcpt tito the sea. Seventeen or eigh-
teen hundred years ago we are told that
a Roman villa OF great proportions
stood on Filey bay Ubeir Felix Por'
tus|; how much remains OF II nowI Within
the fast twenty years Professor Phillips tells
us OF the discovery OF the traces q build
ing on the very edge OF The ciiii. rudeiy
payed, with cornerstones moriiced In the
middle for upright posts; central stone;
the floor covered from foot TO foot and
a half deep with the bones OF animals used
for food; a great amount OF pottery, nearly
all Roman coins; and many other things,
showing il TO have been a large residence
luxuriously kept, possibly part OF a
pretorium.
sea. has long disappeared.
Outhorpe is another departed village. In
1928 its churchyard remained with only one
tombstone, which The sea sooa claimed Tor
its own. The following places have per-
ishcd with 1t at different periods
Saltebagb, Tharlesthorpe or Thorles-
thorpe, Frismerk or Fiismark, Wythe-
feet, Dymeton, Redmayr or Red
mayre. Pennysmerk or Pennysmark,
Upsal, Potlersfleet, and Kilnsea. AT the
latter place stood cross, said TO have been
first erected ut RavenspurDe TO commemo-
rite the landing OF Henry ~. In 1899; but
ft was removed 10 Burton Constable In
1915. and regretted at Hedon in 1882. IL
still adorns the beautiful grounds OF Mr..
Watson, HedoD. Half Of Kilnsea church
fell In 1926, and ten years later the village
was removed.
AT Addetbrope and Mablethrope traces
of a submarine for st are especially visible
Birch, fir, and cak are the trees when are
the most istingushabe; the soil in which
they are fixed and 10 which they grew
is \ soft. greasy clay, above which is
stratum OF decayed leaves and other
vegetable matter several inches thick.
DIR. de Sierra agrees with Dugdale
Hume, the historian 10 Lady Sheiburne,
Telling rs how the Young Pretender, who
was in England in 1753:
"WaIked all about London, and went
[ INTO Lady Primrose's, when she nsd a
good deal OF company. She was so con-
fouuded tbpt she had scarce presence oil
mind to recover herself enough to call
him by the fictitious name be had gwen
in attributing the overwhelming OF tbs
forest 10 an earthquake, considering
impossible for the trees and shrubs iounu
upon 1t TO yegetate so near the sea, ana
below the common level OF the water"
Another writer, however, suggests that ii
was probably embarked in from the sea
by the Romans, aud tina after some centu-
ries il was again overlooked, owing 10 the
decay OF the banks for want OF repairs and
the accumulation Of silt, which enliches
and protects the marshes on the shores OF
ne Wash. Leland SAYS OF Skegness, it was
once great "hayen towne," with castle
and surrounding wall, but 1t was "clene
consumed aud eten up with the se."
In digging a well at Sutton it was found
that the upper stratum OF cay, accumu-
lated by the deposit Of the tides, was SIX
teen feet thick, resting on moory SOIL,
similar to that in which the trees oil the
submerged forests are found. Canoes have
no N William and
ia the sandy valleys between Gainsboron2h
and Barton. Another account says that
Boston and the nsighborhood must at one
fine have been sixteen or eighteen feet
lower than at present, and so sound and
dry that large timber trees grew on 1t, the
roots ana trunks OF which have often been
dug up 10 macy parts of Lincolnshire.
The ancient port OF Rayenser has shared
the general fate, as also the little island near
II. thrown up by the sea, called "Odd," or
Rsyenser-od. These fiourished during the
thirteeBth and fourteenth centuries, after
which they decayed.
According 10 Lyell, at Sheringham, on the
coast of Norfolk. there is now depth oil
& wenty feet Of water, where forty-eight years
ago there stood a cliff fifty feet high, with
houses upon 1t. The ancient villages Of
Shipden, Wimpwell, and Eccles have been
ost. The site OF ancient Gomez Is now
TART OF the German ocean, the Inhabitants
having gradually retreated inland to the
resent town.
In Suffolk, at Dunwicb, once the largest
seaport on the coast, the loss has been very
great. Mouasteries, churches, and public
buildings have at different times been de-
sfroyed, including 400 houses at once. The
town is now reduced TO small village,
with about 200 inhabitants.
In the time OF Queen Elizabeth Brighton,
On Sussex, stood where the chalr-pier now
stretches into the sea. Part OF the town
was destroyed In 1865, and in 1908 and 1905
The remainder was overwhelmed, consisting
OF 1I3 houses.
Referring again TO Cornwall, old histo.
riaus mention tradition OF a tract OF land
extending from the Lands End to the
Sicily Isles, a distance Of thirty miles; but
this can hardly be credited, as the sea is
now three hundred feet deep at the same
place. ST. Micbael's Mount, in Cornwall,
now an island, is said 10 have been situated
I n a wood several miles from the sea; in
fact, It's old Cornish name means the
<sHoare Rock In the Wood" Under the
sauds, between the mount and the main.
iand, may be found black vegetable mould,
containing hazeInuts, and the branches,
roots, and leaves OF forest-trces, giving
some ground for the belief.
There are many more similar traditions
on the continent and elsewhere where the
sea "rages horribly"
The poet INLAND refers TO one OF these
In stDie Herlorne Kirche,' thus translated