CHAPTER VII.

Coast Scenery--A waning Mere, and wasting Cliffs--The Rain and the Sea--Encroachment prevented--Economy of the Hotel--A Start on the Sands--Pleasure of Walking--Cure for a bad Conscience--Phenomena of the Shore--Curious Forms in the Cliffs--Fossil Remains--Strange Boulders--A Villager's Etymology--Reminiscences of "Bonypart" and Paul Jones--The last House--Chalk and Clay--Bridlington--One of the Gipseys--Paul Jones again--The Sea-Fight--A Reminiscence of Montgomery 48