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Identifier: earthitsinhabita481recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
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- 5 Miles. detached, and, falling into the sea, formed a bank with an area of about 20 acres,upon which the waves now spend their force. But whilst the sea is busily demolishing the cliffs of Dover and Hastings, ithas gradually silted up the intervening level tract. The triangular plain thusformed juts out beyond the general line of the coast, and terminates in Dungeness.Xowhere else is it possible to meet with a more striking illustration of the influencewhich the strength and direction of the tides exercise upon the formation of acoast-line. This Eomney level, named after a town in its centre, would neverhave been formed if the English Channel and the North Sea were not placed in* Beele Jukes, School Manual of Geology.
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DOESETSHIEE. 131 communication by the Straits of Dover. It owes its existence to the fact that atthis spot the tidal wave proceeding from the Atlantic is met and stopped byanother tidal wave, propagated from the North Sea. The waste of the cliffs ofHastings, held in suspension by the water, cannot, consequently, pass beyond thispoint, where opposite tides neutralise each other, and it is therefore depositedalong the coast of the Eomney Marsh, which is thus continually increasino- inextent. Dungeness, its extreme point, is supposed to advance annually about5 feet into the sea. Agriculture and sheep farming are the principal occupations in that part ofEngland which extends from Cornwall to the Straits of Dover. There are no reallylarge towns besides Southampton, Portsmouth, and Brighton, and these only flourishbecause in one way or other they are dependencies and outposts of London.Reduced to their own resources, they would soon sink to a secondary rank. Topography. Dorsetshire is a mar

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