Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . .under some abrupt cliffs, which we may suppose tohave been those between Dover and his fastest ships had kept up with him ; andas the Britons occupied the summits of the cliffs,whence they could hurl missiles onto the beachbelow, he waited here for some hours for the rest ofhis fleet, and then, finding the tide flowing west-wards, turned towards the low shore of Romneymarsh, and prepared to effect a landing there. Theold belief that he turned eastwards and landed atDeal, cannot, in the present state of our knowled
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . .under some abrupt cliffs, which we may suppose tohave been those between Dover and his fastest ships had kept up with him ; andas the Britons occupied the summits of the cliffs,whence they could hurl missiles onto the beachbelow, he waited here for some hours for the rest ofhis fleet, and then, finding the tide flowing west-wards, turned towards the low shore of Romneymarsh, and prepared to effect a landing there. Theold belief that he turned eastwards and landed atDeal, cannot, in the present state of our knowledgeof the tides, be any longer maintained. But anotherview of his movements takes him from Boulogne, orsome port west of Wissant, and brings him to the cliffsof Hastings, and so to the level shore of Pevensey.** * Much can be said in favour of this opinion ; but if both invasionsbe taken into consideration, the route by Wissant and Romney seemsthe most probaWe. See the controversy between Messrs. Maidenand Ridgway in recent numbers of the Journal of
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