. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Dover Castle, Book I. ENGLAND. 365. Greenwich Hospital. with the Baltic, and supplies the metropolis with grain and fish. Having risen within thelast half century, it is built with regularity, and contains twelve marble baths, into whichthe sea-water is admitted for those wlio prefer that mode of bathing. Ramsgato, situatedon the isle of Thanet, possesses the advantage of a smooth and extensive beach. Conside-rable improvements have been made in the harbour at the expen
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Dover Castle, Book I. ENGLAND. 365. Greenwich Hospital. with the Baltic, and supplies the metropolis with grain and fish. Having risen within thelast half century, it is built with regularity, and contains twelve marble baths, into whichthe sea-water is admitted for those wlio prefer that mode of bathing. Ramsgato, situatedon the isle of Thanet, possesses the advantage of a smooth and extensive beach. Conside-rable improvements have been made in the harbour at the expense of government, with theview to its yielding protection to vessels navigating this coast, where the dangerous shoalsof tlie Goodwin Sands have often proved fatal. Deptford, Woolwich, Cliatham, and Sheerness, are grand establishments for the construc-tion of siiips of Deptford contains also the Victualling Office. Woolwich is the de-pot of artillery, and the theatre of all the operations connected with its construction andpreparation. Here is also the Royal Military Academy, in which an hundred young men ofrespectable family are trained in all tlie
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