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more broken and wooded country round Hastings and 

 St. Leonards, where the Weald sandstone runs down 

 to the sea. The difference between the rounded Downs 

 and saucer-shaped combes of the chalk, and the deep 

 glens traversing the soft friable strata of the Wealden, is 

 well seen in passing from Beachy Head to Ecclesbourne 

 and Fairlight. Shoreham is kept half alive by the 

 Brighton coal trade : Newhaven struggles on as a port 

 for Dieppe. But as a whole, the county is now one 

 vast seaside resort from end to end, so that to-day the 

 flat coasts at Selsea, Pevensey, and Eye, are alone left 

 out in the cold. The iron trade and the wool trade have 

 lon since gone north to the coal districts. Brighton 

 and Hastings sum up in themselves all that is vital in 

 the Sussex of 1881, 



