[2549] See also T. Hyde Page, Considerations upon the State of Dover Harbour, &c., 1784, p. 6.
[2550] See Phil. Trans., xxix, 1716, p. 469; lxxvi, 1786, p. 220; W. Lambarde, Perambulation of Kent, ed. 1826, p. 154; Mem. Geol. Survey,—The Geology of the Weald, 1875, pp. 302, 315-6; Proc. Geologists’ Association, xiii, 1895, pp. 40-7; Capt. McDakin, Coast Erosion,—Dover Cliffs, pp. 7-9; Pall Mall Gazette, Jan. 18, 1906, p. 12, col. 2.
[2551] Trans. Geol. Soc., v, 1821, p. 17.
[2552] The quotation is from T. Lewin, The Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar, 2nd ed., 1862, p. lvii.
[2553] Romney Marsh Proper extends eastward of the Rhee Wall, which runs from Appledore to New Romney.
[2554] Mem. Geol. Survey,—The Geology of the Weald, p. 251.
[2555] Phil. Trans., xxxv, 1727, pp. 551-2.
[2556] The Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar, 1862, p. lii. We learn from the late F. Drew (Mem. Geol. Survey,—The Geology of the Weald, p. 206) that ‘whatever the soil may be near the surface, it is almost invariably the case that, at a depth of 10 or 20 feet, there is loose sand, often containing recent marine shells’, &c. See note 8, infra.
[2557] Athenæum, Aug. 5, 1865, pp. 184-5.
[2558] See Geol. Mag., 1869, p. 128. The writer, ‘W. T.,’ was evidently the late geologist, William Topley.