Encroachment of the Sea.
-On the beach and bathing-ground to the eastward of Burntisland (on the northern shores of the, Firth of Forth) the sea is making such inroads as to compel the railway company and others to look to the security of their property, and the public to the safety of their lives and limbs. The strong south-east gales of the last week and the present,accompanied with high tides, have thrown the waves with such force against the railway breastwork aa to bring down nearly 100 yards of it. More than three times as much, extending between two arches having access to the Link*, is also from the same cause in a very insecure condition. Further east, the public baths are in imminent danger, the footway which used to separate them from the sea having been narrowed by the motion of the waves to a very few t'eet, which is being gradually undermined till the water almost laps the foundation of the building. Stretching along from those houses the railway again approaches the beach, and here huge piles have been repeatedly driven in at the foot of the embankment to protect it from the sea, but these are proving useless, as much of the ground behind them has been washed away during the recent storms. — Scotsman.
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Evening Post, Issue 83, 16 May 1865, Page 2
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217Encroachment of the Sea. Evening Post, Issue 83, 16 May 1865, Page 2
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