The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . grow, that the colour of the whole is a blend ofyellow, gray, and pink. Above Black Gang Chine this cliff ends in a greatbastion, the home of hundreds of jackdaws and stock-doves and manykestrels. So few persons ever leave the shore or road to pry into theupper cliff that the birds are quite tame ; and at midday when the hotsun warms the shelves of rock the whole cliff face is musical with thecooing of the stock-doves, while others with the jackdaws drop in fromover the summit from moment to moment, and spread
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . grow, that the colour of the whole is a blend ofyellow, gray, and pink. Above Black Gang Chine this cliff ends in a greatbastion, the home of hundreds of jackdaws and stock-doves and manykestrels. So few persons ever leave the shore or road to pry into theupper cliff that the birds are quite tame ; and at midday when the hotsun warms the shelves of rock the whole cliff face is musical with thecooing of the stock-doves, while others with the jackdaws drop in fromover the summit from moment to moment, and spreading their wingsdescend like parachutes to their resting places on the crag. The Black Gang Chine is as desolate and unattractive as the yellowcliffs above it are bright and beautiful. Chine is in Dorsetshire andHampshire, the name given to any part of a cliff which is so broken asto allow an ascent from the beach to the ground above. Along theBournemouth shore these chines are often singularly beautiful, theirsides covered with heather, fern, and flowers, and rhododendrons, while. Oh4 THE ISLE OF WIGHT 47 often a clear stream runs through the bottom. The name extends tothe Isle of Wight, and Luccombe Chine, east of Ventnor, need not fearcomparison with the most beautiful of those on the mainland coast ofHampshire. But Black Gang Chine, which descends for more than 200feet from the verge to the sea, is a natural channel for the gradualooze and subsidence of black clay, iron gray marl, and debris, which thestreamlet and land springs are constantly diluting till they are set inmotion, and crawl in sluggish streams, like cooling lava, to the sea. Its
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