The Plans of a New Asylum for East Sussex

1900 ◽  
Vol 46 (195) ◽  
pp. 673-688
Author(s):  
H. Hayes Newington
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
County Council ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
The South ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
The North ◽  
General Contour ◽  
Suitable Site

When East Sussex determined a year or two back to build an asylum for its sole use, a Visiting Committee, appointed for the purpose, was fortunate enough to find in the centre of the county a suitable estate which the County Council purchased. It is situated at Hellingly, a village about nine miles north of Eastbourne. The area is four hundred acres, compact, as you will see on the plan, having within 400 yards of its western boundary a railway station which we propose to connect with the main asylum by a full gauge tramway. It slopes gently upwards from the south towards the north, where it attains its highest level of about 130 feet above the sea. The subsoil is most favourable, being, with the exception of two patches of clay, of a sandy or gravelly nature. The water supply is adequate, and the general contour lends itself readily to an efficient system of drainage, which will be bacterial. The views are excellent, extending to the sea and the south downs. It would be difficult to find a more suitable site for an asylum. A sub-committee was authorised to travel about the country to inspect other asylums, I being appointed its chairman. We visited the Hartwood, Lenzie, Gartloch, Hawkhead, Cheddleton, Burntwood, Glamorgan, Dorchester, Isle of Wight, and Chichester Asylums.

A Late Bronze Age Hoard from Lulworth, Dorset

1935 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Drew
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
Main Mass ◽  
The North ◽  
Narrow Ridge

From the southern end of the main mass of the Dorset chalk hills an extension runs eastward. This, tapering as it proceeds, forms the narrow ridge of the Purbeck Hills, and, after a break caused by the waters of Poole Bay, is continued by the downs of the Isle of Wight. To the north it is bounded by the valley of the River Frome and Poole Harbour. To the south the sea is nowhere more than a few miles away, and in places it has eaten deeply into the chalk ridge itself.

New Neolithic Sites in Dorset and Bedfordshire, with a Note on the Distribution of Neolithic Storage-Pits in Britain

1964 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 352-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Field ◽  
C. L. Matthews ◽  
I. F. Smith ◽  
Jane M. Ewbank
Keyword(s):  
Flood Plain ◽  
County Council ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Gentle Slope ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Trunk Road

This discovery was made as a result of rescue excavation in advance of road improvements by the Dorset County Council in the autumn of 1962. The site (NGR SY/99789918) now lies in the north verge of the A31 trunk road, 500 feet towards Wimborne Minster from the new Lake junction to Corfe Mullen, but in 1962 it was still included in field No. 7924, belonging to Lake Farm. Here the land, which forms part of the flood-plain of the Stour, is crossed by a spur of slightly more elevated ground extending north from Willetts Lane. There is a gentle slope westwards from the site towards the Chillwater Stream, which flows north to the Stour after descending from higher ground. The lowlying terrain to the west of this low spur used to be marshland until its reclamation, accounting for the name ‘lake’ given to the locality. The subsoil of the valley-bottom is composed variously of gravel, shingly stones and brown alluvial loam. The original vegetational cover would have been woodland of deciduous type, extending from the floor of the valley up the slope to the south and thinning out to scrub and heath on the gravel plateau 150 feet above the Stour. Today, pasture dominates the scene, with oak prominent only in hedgerow or isolated clumps.The pit to be described below lay just over half a mile to the north-east of the site of one similar in shape and contents that was discovered in a quarry in Corfe Mullen parish some twenty-five years ago.

scholarly journals The influence of the Brazil and Malvinas Currents on the Southwestern Atlantic Shelf circulation

Ocean Science ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 983-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Matano ◽  
E. D. Palma ◽  
A. R. Piola
Keyword(s):  
World Ocean ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Oceanic Circulation ◽  
Southwestern Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
The North ◽  
Brazil Current ◽  
South Brazil

Abstract. The oceanic circulation over the southwestern Atlantic shelf is influenced by large tidal amplitudes, substantial freshwater discharges, high wind speeds and – most importantly – by its proximity to two of the largest western boundary currents of the world ocean: the Brazil and Malvinas currents. This review article aims to discriminate the dynamical processes controlling the interaction between this extensive shelf region and the deep-ocean. The discussion is focused on two broad regions: the South Brazil Bight to the north, and Patagonia to the south. The exchanges between the Brazil Current and the South Brazil Bight are characterized by the intermittent development of eddies and meanders of the Brazil Current at the shelfbreak. However, it is argued that this is not the only – nor the most important – influence of the Brazil Current on the shelf. Numerical simulations show that the thermohaline structure of the South Brazil Bight can be entirely ascribed to steady state, bottom boundary layer interactions between the shelf and the Brazil Current. The Malvinas Current does not show the development of eddies and meanders, but its influence on the Patagonian shelf is not less important. Models and observations indicate that the Malvinas Current not only controls the shelfbreak dynamics and cross-shelf exchanges but also influences the circulation in the shelf's interior.

Matrilineal Kinship among the Kunda

Africa ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Van S. Bruwer
Keyword(s):  
Western Boundary ◽  
The South ◽  
Administrative District ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
The North ◽  
Eastern Boundary ◽  
Game Reserve ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThe Kunda, a matrilineal Bantu people numbering about 20,000, occupy part of the Luangwa valley in the Eastern Province of Northern Rhodesia. Their country, located within the administrative district of Fort Jameson, stretches along the east bank of the Luangwa between the Lusangazi in the south and the Lukuzi in the north. Its western boundary is the Luangwa river proper; across the river a game reserve, stretching up from the Muchinga range, forms an uninhabited barrier between them and the tribes beyond the mountains. The eastern boundary is less clearly demarcated, but marches with the territory of the adjacent Cewa. To the south and north live the Nsenga and Bisa respectively. All these adjacent tribes are matrilineal.

Millennial-scale climate changes on South Georgia, Southern Ocean

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunhild C. Rosqvist ◽  
Pernilla Schuber
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
The North ◽  
Suitable Site ◽  
Millennial Scale

AbstractThe location of South Georgia (54°S, 36°W) makes it a suitable site for the study of the climatic connections between temperate and polar environments in the Southern Hemisphere. Because the mass balance of the small cirque glaciers on South Georgia primarily responds to changes in summer temperature they can provide records of changes in the South Atlantic Ocean and atmospheric circulation. We use grey scale density, weight-loss-on-ignition, and grain size analyses to show that the proportion of glacially eroded sediments to organic sediments in Block Lake was highly variable during the last 7400 cal yr B.P. We expect that the glacial signal is clearly detectable above noise originating from nonglacial processes and assume that an increase in glacigenic sediment deposition in Block Lake has followed Holocene glacier advances. We interpret proglacial lake sediment sequences in terms of summer climate warming and cooling events. Prominent millennial-scale features include cooling events between 7200 and 7000, 5200 and 4400, and 2400 and 1600 cal yr B.P. and after 1000 cal yr B.P. Comparison with other terrestrial and marine records reveals that the South Georgian record captures all the important changes in Southern Hemisphere Holocene climate. Our results reveal a tentative coupling between climate changes in the South Atlantic and North Atlantic because the documented temperature changes on South Georgia are anti-phased to those in the North Atlantic.

scholarly journals The Clay with Flints

1914 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-460
Author(s):  
Colonel A. W. Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Stone Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Entire Surface ◽  
Great Probability ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
The North ◽  
Truncated Cone ◽  
History Of ◽  
North And South

I have the pleasure to submit for your information some conclusions which I have arrived at after two years' work among the flints of Hampshire, in a district contained between the Meon, West Sussex, and the south of the Isle of Wight. The point I wish to urge is that in very great probability the earliest pages of the History of the Stone Age will be found written, not in pits of transported gravel but at the fountain head and parent source of these gravels—the Clay with Flints of the chalk downs. That has been my hypothesis, and as I went along I found things fitting into it. I feel convinced that Professor Prestwich had some such idea when he recommended Mr. Benjamin Harrison to devote his attention to the flints of the North Downs at their highest points.I would ask you to undertake a flight of imagination and to place yourselves in some modern aerial contrivance a few hundred feet above Alton in Hampshire, and to survey the horizon north, south and west. You will find below you the western extremity of the Wealden Pericline in the form of a truncated cone fading away to the horizon of Tertiaries which once wrapped round and spread over it, but which now have shrunk away to form the London and Hampshire Basins north and south of the Pericline. What was once a deposit of Reading Beds became in Eo., Mio, Plio. and Pleistocene time a smear of Remanié over the entire surface, before the excavation of the chalk valleys, a residue which we call Clay with Flints, and which is known in France as the Argile à Silex.

scholarly journals Monitoring the Spatiotemporal Difference in Glacier Elevation on Bogda Mountain from 2000 to 2017

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 6374
Author(s):  
Weibing Du ◽  
Ningke Shi ◽  
Linjuan Xu ◽  
Shiqiong Zhang ◽  
Dandan Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Radar Data ◽  
Surface Elevation ◽  
North Slope ◽  
The South ◽  
Glacier Surface ◽  
Study Region ◽  
The North ◽  
South Slope ◽  
The Difference

The difference in glacier surface elevation is a sensitive indicator of climate change and is also important for disaster warning and water supply. In this paper, 25 glaciers on Bogda Mountain, in the eastern Tianshan Mountains, are selected as the study object as they are typical of glaciers in arid or semi-arid areas with importance for water supply. The Repeat Orbit Interferometry (ROI) method is used to survey the surface elevation of these glaciers using Sentinel-1A Radar data from 2017. Using data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), the difference in the glacier surface elevation between 2000 and 2017 is obtained. A scheme to evaluate the accuracy of estimated variations in glacier surface elevation is proposed in this article. By considering the surfaces of lakes in the study region as ideal horizontal planes, the average standard deviation (SD) value of the lake elevation is taken as the error caused by the radar sensor and observing conditions. The SD of the lake elevation is used as an index to evaluate the error in the estimated variation of the glacier surface elevation, and the obtained SD values indicate that the result obtained using the ROI method is reliable. Additionally, the glacier surface elevation variation pattern and a Logarithmic Fitting Model (LFM) are used to reduce the error in high-altitude glacial accumulation areas to improve the estimation of the difference in the glacier surface elevation obtained using ROI. The average SD of the elevation of the 12 lakes is ±2.87 m, which shows that the obtained glacier surface elevations are reliable. This article concludes that, between 2000 and 2017, the surface elevation of glaciers on Bogda Mountain decreased by an average of 11.6 ± 1.3 m, corresponding to an average decrease rate of 0.68 m/a, and glaciers volume decreased by an average of 0.504 km3. Meanwhile, the surface elevations of the lakes increased by an average of 8.16 m. The decrease of glacier surface elevation leads to the expansion of glacial lakes. From the north slope clockwise to the south slope, the glacier elevation variation showed a decreasing trend, and the elevation variation gradually increased from the south slope to the north slope. With the increase of glacier altitude, the variation of glacier surface elevation gradually changed from negative to positive. The findings of this article suggest that the rate of glacier retreat on Bogda Mountain increased from 2000 to 2017.

FARMING IN HAWKES BAY

1955 ◽  
pp. 18-36
Author(s):  
R.H. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Westerly Winds

You are in sunny Hawkes Bay, the word "sunny" having become synonymous with the name Hawkes Bay, and there is justification for this when one examines the sunshine records for the district. This city of Napier enjoys an average of 2,420 hours of sunshine per annum which, if you look at it on a daily basis, is equivalent to just over 6% hours of sunshine per day for every day of the year. Lying to the south-east of the North Island as it does, and protected from the prevailing westerly winds by the Ruahine Ranges on its western boundary, and to a more limited extent from the southerly winds by the hills to the 'south, it escapes much of the cloud that districts to the west of the ranges experience.

scholarly journals The influence of the Brazil and Malvinas Currents on the southwestern Atlantic shelf circulation

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 837-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Matano ◽  
E. D. Palma ◽  
A. R. Piola
Keyword(s):  
World Ocean ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Oceanic Circulation ◽  
Southwestern Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
The North ◽  
Brazil Current ◽  
South Brazil

Abstract. The oceanic circulation over the southwestern Atlantic shelf is influenced by large tidal amplitudes, substantial freshwater discharges, high wind speeds and – most importantly – by its proximity to two of the largest western boundary currents of the world ocean: the Brazil and Malvinas currents. This review article aims to describe the dynamical processes controlling the interaction between the shelf and the deep-ocean. The discussion is focused on two broad regions: the South Brazil Bight to the north, and Patagonia to the south. The exchanges between the Brazil Current and the South Brazil Bight are characterized by the intermittent development of eddies and meanders of the Brazil Current at the shelfbreak. However, it is argued that this is not the only – nor the most important – influence of the Brazil Current on the shelf. Numerical simulations show that the thermohaline structure of the South Brazil Bight can be entirely ascribed to steady state, bottom boundary layer interactions between the shelf and the Brazil Current. The Malvinas Current does not show the development of eddies and meanders, but its influence on the Patagonian shelf is no less important. Models and observations indicate that the Malvinas Current not only controls the shelfbreak dynamics and cross-shelf exchanges but also the circulation in the shelf's interior.

A Late Minoan III ‘kitchen’ at Makritikhos (Knossos) (Knossos Survey 90)

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 182-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinclair Hood ◽  
Piet de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
The South ◽  
Deep Trench ◽  
The North ◽  
Natural Rock ◽  
High Bank ◽  
Small Room ◽  
North End

In the summer of 1951 N. Dadoudis, while digging a deep trench to bury stones from a plot of land belonging to him on the east edge of Makritikhos village, about 250 metres north of the Palace of Minos, found a complete Minoan amphora (Plan, Fig. 5, no. 3). He reported this discovery to the Ephor of Antiquities for Crete, Dr. N. Platon, who invited Piet de Jong, then the School's Curator at Knossos, to examine the area. Excavation revealed a small room, against the east wall of which the amphora had evidently once stood. The room was cleared by Piet de Jong assisted later by Sinclair Hood. To judge from the character of the vases found in it, the room might have been used as a kitchen.The ground on the edge of Makritikhos village here slopes steeply down through a series of terraces to the bed of the Kairatos stream about 40 metres to the east. The ‘Kitchen’ lay just below a high bank, forming the western boundary of the plot of ground, with the natural rock exposed at the north end and Minoan house walls showing in it to the south. There seems to have been a marked slope down towards the north as well as to the east here in Minoan times. The wall a–a (Fig. 2) at the north end of the original trench dug by Dadoudis, of squared limestone blocks measuring up to about half a metre in length and 0–35 thick, lay at a lower level than the Kitchen, although it appeared to be of the same period with it. A roughly constructed wall b–b south of a–a may have supported a terrace marking this change in ground level. The corner d–d of another, presumably contemporary, house built of squared limestone blocks was exposed in the south part of the original trench.

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