[2838] Bull. de L’Acad. Roy.... de Belgique, 2e sér., xlvii, 1879, pp. 144-5.
[2839] Const. Hist. of England, i, 1880, p. 540.
[2840] Gesta regis Henrici secundi Benedicti abbatis, ed. W. Stubbs, i, 1867, p. 60.
[2841] Radulfi de Diceto ... opera hist., ed. W. Stubbs, i, 1876, p. 377.
[2842] B. G., iv, 23, § 1.
[2843] ‘It has no port, nor is it easy to see how it ever could have had one.... Possibly Cape Blanc-Nez may have projected further seawards two thousand years ago than at present, and so have afforded it something like a shelter from the south-west wind.’ Archaeol. Journal, xxi, 1864, p. 221, note. But Cape Grisnez would equally have afforded Wissant ‘something like a shelter from the south-west wind’; yet Dr. Guest implies that at Wissant there could have been no harbour unless it had been protected by sand-dunes. And what about the north-west, the north, and the north-east wind?
[2844] Gentleman’s Magazine, xxvi, 1846, p. 256.
[2845] Origines Celticae, ii, 363.
[2846] This assumption, with the condition that the ships could work to windward, is approved by Captain Iron and by Commander Boxer, R.N., the harbour-master of Folkestone.
[2847] I assume what I shall afterwards prove (see pp. 595-665, infra), that Caesar landed in 55 B.C. between Walmer and Deal. If he had landed near Hythe or Lympne, the force of my argument would of course be increased.