The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . 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
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . 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. Brighstone Church. By R. Scrle. appearance is more strange than beautiful, but from the eastern verge otthe funnel the whole of the Back of the Island is seen as far as theNeedle Rocks, a wide bight, with a coast-line of twenty miles without asingle harbour or break, by any considerable river or estuary in the longforbidding line of cliffs. No town, or anything larger than a fishinghamlet breaks this desolate coast. Here begins the wide, flat, culti-vated plain which runs back through the centre of the island toNewport. It is as purely agricultural a district as any in High Suffolkor Cambridgeshire, unwatcred by rivers, harbourless where it touches 48 THE ISLE OF IFIGHT the coast, and reminded that it is bounded by the sea only whensome more than unusually notable shipwreck, such as that of the Eider,takes place on the Atherfield Rocks. This plain is bounded on thewest by the line of chalk downs which hits the coast between Brookand Freshwater, and runs on in that tremendous line of c
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