[3338] V. J. Vaillant, Classis Britannica, pp. 41-2 and illustration facing p. 48.
[3339] See A. Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, ii, 1257-8.
[3340] See pp. 678-82, infra.
[3341] It may be argued that if Caesar had landed near Sandwich he would have landed in Richborough harbour. This objection, such as it is, would apply equally to Hythe and Pevensey; but it might have been dangerous to land in a harbour with a narrow entrance in the presence of an enemy; and Caesar may have had other reasons (see Lord Wolseley’s Soldier’s Pocket-Book, 1886, p. 240). Moreover, the shore of the harbour must have been very marshy.
[3342] B. G., v, 9, § 1.
[3343] p. 630, supra.
[3344] ‘The anchorage in the Small Downs is much more secure than in the Downs, being more sheltered, with better holding ground, and shoaler water,’ &c. The Channel Pilot, 9th ed., 1900, part i, p. 344. I am informed by Mr. Jordan, one of the Deal boatmen, that ships driven ashore between Sandown Castle and Sandwich would suffer far less damage than off Walmer or Deal; and they would probably have suffered somewhat less even when the Deal shingle was much less steep.
[3345] Prof. B. Niese devotes the greater part of his valuable review (Hist. Zeitschrift, xciii, 97-101) to a criticism of this section of my book.
[3346] Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul, 1899, pp. 179-80.
[3347] Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie, &c. cliii, 1896, pp. 269-71. Cf. Rev. celt., xxii, 1901, p. 87.