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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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othe river rises the massive keep of the Norman castle erected in the time ofWilliam the Conqueror by Bishop Gundulph, the same who built the Tower KENT. 205 of London, as also the cathedral of Rochester. Chatham is a naval and militarytown. Its dockyard is the largest in the kingdom, next to that of Portsmouth,and has been constructed in a great measure by convict labour. Extensivelines of fortifications and detached forts envelop the three towns, and no secondDe Ruyter would now dare to sail up the Medway and carry off the vesselssheltered by its fortifications. Not the least formidable of these have been erected at the mouth of theMedway, 10 miles below Chatham, on the isles of Grain and Sheppey. Theformer is in reality only a peninsula, whilst the latter is separated from the restof the county by a shallow arm of the sea, known as the Swale. Sheernessoccupies the north-west point of the island, and its guns command the entrances Fig. 102.—EOCHESTER AND CHATHAM.Scale 1 : 250,000.
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_5I Bro(ihunsl >/ 20 E Of G 2 Miles. of both the Thames and the Medway. The site of the town, a quaking swamp,which had to be solidified by piles before houses could be built upon it, is by nomeans healthy by nature, but by planting pines the sanitary conditions of thetown and its neighbourhood have been much improved. Queenhorough, close toSheerness, has recently come into notice as the point whence a mail-steamer dailydeparts for Flushing. The stream of passengers, however, flows past this ancienttown without leaving any mark upon it. At Sittingbourne the train whichconveys them to London joins the main line from Dover. Sittingbourne, and itsneighbour Milton, the latter at the head of a small creek, have paper-mills,breweries, brick-kilns, and malting-houses. Faversham, at the head of anothercreek, like that of Milton tributary to the Swale, has paper-mills, brick-kilns, 206 THE BEITISH ISLES. gun-cotton and gunpowder works, and oyster beds. It is the shipping port ofCanterbur^^

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