[3013] Ib.
[3014] According to Falconer’s Marine Dictionary, 1815, p. 220, the lee-way of a ship in a gale varies from 5½ to 6½ points. The amount of course depends upon the force of the gale, the build of the ship, and other circumstances.
[3015] See Addenda, p. 740.
[3016] I need hardly say that if Caesar’s transports had been anchored off Pevensey on the night of the full moon a north-north-easterly gale could not have driven them ashore unless they had been inside the harbour, which Caesar would have mentioned.
[3017] Instead of ‘eight’ Airy should of course have written ‘seven’.
[3018] Archaeologia, xxxiv, 1852, pp. 239, 241-2.
[3019] Lewin (The Invasion of Britain, &c., 1862, pp. xxxii-xxxiii) points out that if Caesar approached the British coast anywhere near Pevensey, ‘he must have anchored, in the first instance, somewhere off the high cliffs between Hastings and Cliff’s End,’ because at no point between Hastings and Pevensey are the ‘precipitous heights’ off which he anchored to be found. But, continues Lewin, if he anchored at any point between Hastings and Cliff’s End, ‘eight Roman miles would not carry him so far as Pevensey Marsh.’ [For ‘eight’ read ‘seven’.]
[3020] Athenæum, Sept. 10, 1859, p. 338.
[3021] The Invasion of Britain, &c., 1862, pp. xxiv-xxv.
[3022] Athenæum, Sept. 10, 1859, p. 338.