Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... could constantly see the shores of England, and were at times in tacking close into them. All those parts consist of Chalk which are high, steep, and almost perpendicular. Measured by the eye the height of these steep Chalk coasts, from the water up to the turf, seemed to be 3 to 4 fathoms, in some places [T. II. p. 103] more, in other places less. We could see with the naked eye that in these chalk cliffs also there were such strata of bare flints as have been described above, one of which, just half way between the water surface and the top soil, ran quite horizontal, as though it had been arranged on the dead level, and was visible nearly the whole way along this piece of coast.* Lower down, a little above the surface of the water, another appeared, but the view of it was broken and indistinct. Upon these Chalk hills lay beautiful arable fields, on which the crops which were almost all wheat were just beginning to turn yellow, and were nearly ready for cutting. We could not see any sheaves or cut cropSj whereas, at the beginning of the week before, we saw rye sheaves in Essex from Gravesend. About six o'clock in the evening we arrived at Deal, off which we cast anchor. Deal is a little spot or town, flack eller Stad, lying on the shore at the entrance of a little bay, vik, which the sea has made. The houses are nearly all built of brick, and roofed partly with pantiles, but mostly with plain tiles. There is only one church in the town, not large, and almost without a tower, only a little box, kur, in its place. The churchyard is tolerably large, and has planted round it an avenue of elms, in which one can go and walk. The inhabitants live tolerably comfortably, and support themselves principally by trade. Nearly all ships which come...
