AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF

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CEA BTE RAL

GEOGRAPHICAL STATE AND CIRCUMSTANCES.

DEC T.I.— Situation and Extent.

HIS county forms the ſouth-eaſt angle or corner of

the kingdom, and probably derives its name from

that circumſtance. Tts figure is quadrilateral; and it is

bounded on the north ſide by the river Fhamés, the

county of Eſſex, and the German Ocean: on the ſouth

by the county of Suſſex; on the caſt by the Britiſh Chan- nel; and on the weſt by the county of Surrey,

It is about ſixty-three miles in length, from Deptford to the point of the North Foreland, comprehending be- tween theſe extremities about one degree and twenty- nine minutes of longitude; and meaſures on the eaft ſide, in a dired line from the North Foreland to Dengeneſs- Point, nearly forty miles, between the latitudes of 50°, 54 and. 519, 23/7, 20” north,

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