. The earth and its inhabitants ... The waves have gnawedthe coast, the Roman wall which surrounded the city has for the most part beendestroyed, and in order to protect the church, which serves as a landmark tomariners, from a similar fate, the Admiralty has been obliged to construct a sea- * A. Eamsaj-, Physical Geolojjj- and Geography of Great Rogers; 0. Peschel, Neue Problèmeder %-ergleiclienden Erdkuude. 152 THE BRITISH ISLES. wall. But whilst the sea cnoroachcd at that spot upon the coast, the laud else-where has gaiued in extent. The strait which anciently separated the Isle o
. The earth and its inhabitants ... The waves have gnawedthe coast, the Roman wall which surrounded the city has for the most part beendestroyed, and in order to protect the church, which serves as a landmark tomariners, from a similar fate, the Admiralty has been obliged to construct a sea- * A. Eamsaj-, Physical Geolojjj- and Geography of Great Rogers; 0. Peschel, Neue Problèmeder %-ergleiclienden Erdkuude. 152 THE BRITISH ISLES. wall. But whilst the sea cnoroachcd at that spot upon the coast, the laud else-where has gaiued in extent. The strait which anciently separated the Isle ofThanet from the mainland of Kent has heen silted up, the old island convertedinto a peninsula, and the river Stour now traverses the site of the old AVantsome,or sea-passage, through which foreign ships sometimes passed on their way toLondon. This gain at the north-eastern corner of the county of Kent, however,is but small if compared with the loss sustained along the east shore towards the 84.—GooinviN 1 : 175, h«;^vr^> Deal ^^%f ^,^^ ff^fj ;*20 !• 50- G.
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