View from the western end of the beach near Culverhole Point, looking eastward ([1840])
George Johann Scharf (Zincographer)
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | sf551.45/AXM/CON |
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SC0054
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CD 2 DVD 1
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Date
[1840]
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Page, John Lloyd Warden. The coasts of Devon and Lundy Island. London: Horace Cox, 1895. p. 431.From Haven Cliff to Culverhole Point the ochre and white coast line is broken and irregular, and exhibits traces of subsidence. These traces, however, scarcely prepare us for what is coming. For we are approaching the Landslip - that wonderful undercliff (if so it may be called) which looks more like the results of an earthquake than of an ordinary subsidence. I have referred to the landslip at White Cliff. This is a small affair when compared to the mass of ruin that stretches eastward of Culverhole Point. But the process is the same. There is a fissure in the chalk down; that fissure widens, rain soaks in, and frost helps rain. Or springs wash out the sand on which the cliffs stand, and the huge mass begins to quake. By-and-bye the people of adjacent farms hear a rumble, a roar, a crash as loud as that of an Alpine avalanche. Time and the elements have done their work - the cliff has gone.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Zincograph
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227x368mm
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1840