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able, that the ſloping part of the ſtone-hill, which vités Tates E fe m the ragſtone ſhelf above, ſhould be ſo thickly covered with villages, whoſe churches ſtand about half way up the flope of the hill; while the neighbouring

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chalk hill-ridge, which ſeparates the ragftone ſhelf from

the hill above it, has not a ſingle village or church UPON The ftone-hill, in the extent of between twenty and

thirty miles, has ten or twelve pariſh churches upon lte

Romney Marſh is a ſpacious level of exceedingly rich land, lying at the ſouth corner of the county. Its ſhape IS nearly that of a parallelogram, whoſe length from the íoot of the hill at Aldington to the ſea-ſhore, between Dengeneſs and Rye, is about twelve miles; and breadth, from the borders of the Weald of Kent by Warehorn, to the ſea-ſhore, between Romney and Dimchurch, is nearly eight miles, It contains the two corporate towns of E ey and Lydd, and ſixteen other pariſhes. The quantity of land contained in this level, that is within the county of Kent, 1s about forty-four thouſand acres. The adjoining level of Guilford Marſh is, the greater part of it, 1n the county of Suſſex,

It is divided into three ſeparate diftris; viz. Romney= Marſh, which contains about twenty-four thouſand acres 3 Walland-Marſh about twelve thoufand, and Denge=- Marſh E eight thouſand acres 4. Harris, in his hif- tory of Kent, in ſpeaking of Romney Marſh, obſerves, “ that it was the firſt land which was inned or gained « from the ſea 1n Britain. For the laws, fatuates, and € ordinances for the conſervation of this marſh, are

«(like our common laws) without any known original z;

* This 1s accounted for by the great fertility of the ſoil on the one, and the want of it on the other. Note by a Middle Kent Farmer.

TV Claus E. H. 3. D, inter M, 6 and 7, in the Tower Records; alſo, Dg dü on Embankment. N CCADEINE