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
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Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Zondon, Longman & Co. CX1X lie under the waves three miles within the sea. It ishighly probable that both Old Winchelsea and Promhillstood, as Lydd does, on an ancient shingle spit, and not higherabove high-water mark than three to four feet, and that they R/ v + FARE FIELD + BROOKLAND
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A PLAN OF RYE HARBOUR(From Camdens Britannia). The dotted lines show the course of the Rother at this time, there being noopening between Play den and Rye. were destroyed by some great storms for want of the fore-shore which protected Lydd and Romney, viz. DungenessPoint. The sea probably, at some early period of which wehave no record, severed the spit somewhere between OldWinchelsea and Promhill. There cannot be much doubtthat at one period this shingle spit formed a communicationacross the bay, part of the parish of Winchelsea being stillon the east of Rye Bay, and extending to a point on the coastwhere a man can see Beachy Head. Holloway, in his His-tory of Romney Marsh, speaking of Camber Castle in 1540, cxx observes that the sea flowed very close to the walls of thecastle, on the south, east, and north sides. In 1626, onlyeighty-six years after, it is stated in a commission granted toLord Tufton and others, 2 Charles I., that the castle ofCamber, in Sussex, was grown into great

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