Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1896, Vol. 125: With Other Selected and Abstracted Papers Shayla - The pebbles sorted from other material eroded from the cliffs become heaped in a bank, the base of which is almost invari ably above low-water level. Shingle is rarely found below low water mark; and the regular travel of both Shingle and sand along a coast is confined to the zone lying above low water of neap tides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.