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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
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ls, Brighton and Hastings. But whilst the old villageof Eastbourne has grown into a populous town, its neighbour PereuHcij, on the siteof the Roman Portiis Anderida, and affiliated to Hastings as one of the CinquePorts, has been deserted by the sea, and has dwindled into a poor village, whosehouses nestle at the base of a JSTorman castle reared upon Roman foundations. Asone of the Cinque Ports, Pevensey was exempted from customs dues, and enjoyedspecial fishery rights, on condition of its providing a certain nuraberof men-of-war 144 THE BRITISH ISLES. for the Kino-s service. We may fairly doubt whether J alius Cœsar landed in Peven-sey Bay, but there can be no question of its having sheltered, in lOdO, the ninehundred vessels which brought William the Conquerors host to England. It wasfrom here he marched upon the village of Epiton, now known as Battle, where heoverthrew the Saxons under King Harold. On the spot where the Saxon standard Fii». 79.—Hastings.l-rom an Admiralty Chait.
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