. The earth and its inhabitants .. . river is 6 miles wide, marks thecommonly reputed mouth of the Thames, but legally the Port of London is* Redman, Institution of Civil Engineers. THE BASIN OF THE THAMES. 151 bounded by a line drawn from the I^orth Foreland through the Gunfleet beaconto Harwich Naze. The littoral region which bounds the estuary of the Thames to the north andsouth has undergone frequent changes during the historical epoch. The seagains almost incessantly upon the coasts of Suffolk and Norfolk, advancing at aspeed of 6 to 15 feet annually. Towns have been compelled to retreat
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . river is 6 miles wide, marks thecommonly reputed mouth of the Thames, but legally the Port of London is* Redman, Institution of Civil Engineers. THE BASIN OF THE THAMES. 151 bounded by a line drawn from the I^orth Foreland through the Gunfleet beaconto Harwich Naze. The littoral region which bounds the estuary of the Thames to the north andsouth has undergone frequent changes during the historical epoch. The seagains almost incessantly upon the coasts of Suffolk and Norfolk, advancing at aspeed of 6 to 15 feet annually. Towns have been compelled to retreat inland,and the old church of Eccles-by-the-Sea is now buried beneath sand piled upby the waves.* Elsewhere changes of an opposite kind have taken have become silted up, and ancient seaport towns reduced into agri-cultural villages. Beccles, which had a much-frequented port in the fourteenthcentury, now lies 8 miles inland, and the trade w4iich formerly was its otvti is Fig. The Isle of Thanet. Scale 1 : Foreshore.
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