The Loss and Gain of Land m Britain 47 



According to history this portion of Godwine's estate 

 was overwhelmed by the sea in 1099. 



Further evidence of the loss of sea-coast is abundant, 

 but we will make only one other reference to this 

 subject. In our literature there are many allusions to 

 the lost tract of land which lay between Land's End 

 and the Scilly Isles, and which is named Lyonesse by 

 poets and novelists. Camden, an old annalist, writes : 



Teignmouth ; the coast line and sea wall 



"Land's End once undoubtedly stretched far to the 

 westward. Mariners have no doubt of this from the 

 rubbish they constantly draw up. In the utmost 

 rocks of this promontory, when they are bare at low 

 water, appear veins of white lead and brass." 



We must now turn our attention to the large tracts 

 of land which have been won from the sea within 

 historical memory. Since the Romans first began to 



