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The Near Coast: the Ports and the Water Between

The shore opposite is low where Kent is high and open where Kent is shut, and a company that has been looking at the chalk for a fortnight will find the change disconcerting. There are no cliffs to speak of for forty miles either side of the narrowest point. There are dunes, a great deal of sand, marsh behind it that is worked in the way the Romney level is worked, and river mouths every few miles that are navigable for small craft. It looks poorer than Kent from the water and is not.

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