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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 233

An illustration from The world:, 1848, leaf 233
as is being removed. Theisle of Sheppey, which is a tertiary formation, now about sixmiles long, by four in breadth, is rapidly decaying on its northside, fifty acres of land having been lost within the last twentyyears. To the east of Sheppey stands the Church of Reculver,upon a clifi* of clay and… … We here give a view of the Church of Reculver taken in theyear 1781, copied from the Gentlemans Magazine. At this timethe spot had become interesting from the encroachment of thewater. It represents considerable space as intervening betweenthe churchyard and the cliff. In the year 1782, the cottage…

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