The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-25

Swallowed by The Sea.
Shakespeare tells US 1.-The seas a
thief," and our experience fully corrob-
oraJes hun. Our English coasts have
been thoroughly ravaged by the relent-
less force OF this powerful element and
many are the towns and villages that
have fallen victims to its Unsuitable
nav. No doubt the sea has always
5een washing away our crumbling cliffs
and many traditions still finger of an
cicnt cities and vast tracts of land, for
ever buried beneath Che waves, Let US
recount q few.
On the coast of Yorkshire, from Flam-
borough II sad to SpurR Point, the dam
age done BY the sea for ages has been
very extensive: Professor Phillips esti-
mates the loss of land at the rate of
about two and a quarter yards per year
on IN average, Many villages have
been washed from its shores, which are
now forgotten. On some of our old
ma, we may read such items rs 90 Hart
burn. washed away by the sea-"
- II yde, lost in the sea-" 8 Here stood
Auburn, which was washed away by the
sea" The Rev. Il. Wilton, NJ. A, has
composed q graceful little poem on the
latter place. 1t is said that the ruins
Of Auburn are still 60 be seen opposite
Auburn House Bridington Quay has
bten subjected to many ravages; in
81, after stormy weather, the whole
Vas q scene of ruin, houses being de-
81 oyed and the north pier severed
from the land. Houses have frequently
been taken down to save them from
being swept into the sea. Seventeen or
eighteen hundred years agSwe are told
that a Roman villa of great proportions
stood on Flley Bay ftheir Felix Portus@
now much remaius of it now? Within
Che last twefty years Professor Phillips
tells Us of the discovery of the traces of
Il building on the very edge of the cliff,
rudely paved, with corner stones NOR
ticed in the middle for upright posts;
central stone; the floor covered from
. foot te a foot and 3 half deep with the
bones of animals used for food; a great
amount of pottery, nearly all Roman;
coins and MANY other things, showing it
10 have been a large residence luxuri-
Susly kept possibly part of apretorium.
Outhorne is another departed village.
In 1928 its churchyard remained with
only one tombstone. which the sea soon
claimed for its own = &C. ---..
On the coast of Lincolnshire, the raw
ages of the sea, though not extensive,
have still been very considerable.
+ rom Grimsby to SkegneSS there are
stu many visible vestigeS of a subma-
rine forest. Dugdale. however, attrib-
H., IN nth u In
Itterbv Owle, and Clec Ness were so
ciespoiled and flooded that they origin
Rted the local term, /" Gone to Hum
Der"
At Thrunscoe. church village and
seven hundred acres of land are said to
have disappeared The old town of
Saltfeet is also said TO have been de-
stroyed bv the sea, and, near the low
water mark stones have been found
which seemed to have belonged to a
church. About sixty years ago fish
erman drew up y large bell-clapper in
che meshes of his net. AT Stain in
Mablethorpe, st. Peters Church and
the greater part of its parish were car
rieG away By the sea several centuries
ago; and its rectory valued in X. b., at
seven pounds ten shillings and two
pence, was consolidated with Theddle-
shorpe st. Helen's in l745. The orig
NAL church of the village of Trusthorpe
Is sand to have been washed away by
the sea three and have centuries ago.
Near Sutton in the Marsh and Huttoit.
Ehere are again distinct traces of a sub
marine forest; at the former place a
treat part of St Clements is said to
Save been washed away centuries ago
with its original church. At the low
'szst Gibbs ef the tide great number of
TSlets and decayed trees may be SEEN
When tie iste Sir Joseph Banks ex-
asnined these islets or clay hutS as
Elsev sre sometimes called-the people
e.ald him that their ancestors could dis
s.ern the rams % the old church at very
3,aT wateN-
At Addlethorpe and Ma5lethorpe
traces Of a submarine forest are espec-