Identifier: invasionofbrita00lewi (find matches)
Title: The invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar : with replies to the remarks of the Astronomer-Royal (G.B. Airy) and of the late Camden professor of ancient history at Oxford (E. Cardwell)
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Lewin, Thomas, 1805-1877 Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892 Cardwell, Edward, 1787-1861
Subjects:
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
. I was informed by a native that it was twokilometres, or one mile and a quarter long from westto east, and half a kilometre, or two furlongs and a halfbroad from north to south. A stream which has waterenough to turn a mill runs through the village into theport, and thence forces its way through an opening intothe sea. First appearances would lead one to sup-pose that the belt of sand has been the bulwark of theport on the north, and that the only entrance had beenwhere the watercourse now runs; but in the Museumat Boulogne is a painting (copied from one preservedamong the archives of Wissant) representing the portas a little inlet or bay scooped out of the shore, havinga breakwater in front of it, and open at each end,so that a few ships could find shelter behind the break-water, and others at the east or west end of the port,according to the quarter of the wind.* The traditionis that the old town of Wissant stood at the east end * A copy of the plan is annexed. r^$ ^ ^ I &, J1
Text Appearing After Image:
xli of the port, and that it did so, at least in part, isevident, for an excavation had been recently madewhen I was there, and the walls of houses were visibleat the depth of twelve feet. About a quarter of amile to the south of the village is what is called Caesarscamp, seated on a chalk hill (though there are no tracesof chalk between it and the sea), and consisting of foursuccessive tiers of ramparts. They were all earth-works, and no remains of masonry were traceable.The inmost and most elevated circle was, speakingfrom recollection, about thirty yards across. The im-pression which the whole leaves is not that of a Eomancamp, but of a mediaeval fortress. A plan of the campand other military works will be found in M. Henrys Essay on Boulogne. The port of Wissant was never heard of until seven oreight centuries ago, and flourished only for a very briefperiod.* In fact, the line of shore, consisting of those ever-moving heaps of sand, does not admit of any permanentcelebrity. I shou

Note About Images