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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 234

An illustration from The world:, 1848, leaf 234
emolished ; nearer the church is shown an ancientchapel now destroyed, and at the extreme right is the Isle ofSheppey. In the year 1806, a part of the Churchyard with some ItECULVEIl CHURCH. 231 oi tlie adjoining houses was washed away, and the ancientchurch with its two lofty spires, a well known… … probably, have fallen long since, had not the force of the watersbeen checked by an artificial causeway of stones, and large wood-en piles, driven into the sands to break the force of the waves. There are good reasons for believing that the coasts of Franceand England were formerly united, this is…

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