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Brighton to which this place serves as a port 

 attracts in considerable numbers ; indeed, the tide 

 even penetrates so far as to flood many of those 

 flat grounds, which, lying lower than the sea, run 

 parallel with it for some miles between Shoreham 

 and Hove, and are separated from it only by a 

 high ridge of shingle. Various little pools of wa- 

 ter are thus formed, which at certain seasons are 

 haunted by many of the smaller species of wading 

 and swimming birds, and the river above Shore- 

 ham, as far as Beeding levels, during the spring 

 and autumnal months, will generally repay the 

 patient observer, or the persevering gunner, who 

 explores its muddy banks, and whose ardour is 

 not to be chilled by an occasionally fruitless ex- 

 pedition in search of a rara avis. 



