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... miles long and eight broad , divided into Romney Marsh , Wallend Marsh , Denge Marsh , and Guildford Marsh . The tract is a dead , uniform level , extending from Hythe , in Kent , westward to Winchelsea , in Sussex ; and it is to this ...
... miles long and eight broad , divided into Romney Marsh , Wallend Marsh , Denge Marsh , and Guildford Marsh . The tract is a dead , uniform level , extending from Hythe , in Kent , westward to Winchelsea , in Sussex ; and it is to this ...
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... miles from the sea , and sheep now graze where formerly the galleys of the Romans rode . West Hythe , one of the Cinque Ports , originally the port for Boulogne , is silted up by the wide extent of shingle used by the modern School of ...
... miles from the sea , and sheep now graze where formerly the galleys of the Romans rode . West Hythe , one of the Cinque Ports , originally the port for Boulogne , is silted up by the wide extent of shingle used by the modern School of ...
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... miles from the sea . New Win- chelsea , the Portsmouth and Spithead of its day , is left stranded like the rest of the old Cinque Ports , and is now but a village surrounded by the remains of its ancient grandeur . All this ruin ...
... miles from the sea . New Win- chelsea , the Portsmouth and Spithead of its day , is left stranded like the rest of the old Cinque Ports , and is now but a village surrounded by the remains of its ancient grandeur . All this ruin ...
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... miles from north to south , and from twenty to thirty miles broad , the high lands of the interior bounding it somewhat in the form of a horse - shoe . It contains about 680,000 acres of the richest land in England , and is as much the ...
... miles from north to south , and from twenty to thirty miles broad , the high lands of the interior bounding it somewhat in the form of a horse - shoe . It contains about 680,000 acres of the richest land in England , and is as much the ...
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... miles of land was entirely abandoned to the waters , forming an immense estuary of the Wash , into which the rivers Witham , Welland , Glen , Nene , and Ouse discharged the rainfall of the central counties of England . It was an inland ...
... miles of land was entirely abandoned to the waters , forming an immense estuary of the Wash , into which the rivers Witham , Welland , Glen , Nene , and Ouse discharged the rainfall of the central counties of England . It was an inland ...
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