MORE ENGLAND.
Travelling during the week from North-west to Eastern England I was struck by the queer contrasts of loss and gain to the land. Just north of Liverpool the sea is swallowing up not only the land but houses. Aknost the other day dwellers by the sea found that gardens had been added to their houses at the sea's edge. To-day both house and garden are sub- tracted. The old land as well as the accretions (for which in some cases new bases had been drawn out), have altogether vanished. Part of the fault is thought to lie with the fickle and cantankerous little stream, the Alt, which, borrowing a habit from eastern rivers—as seen at Yarmouth, Aldborough and Blakeney—runs parallel with the neighbour sea instead of at right angles ; and most ingenious efforts have been made to blast a more direct passage through the sand. But the main cause is a doubtless artificial interference with the tides elsewhere.
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