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dicular chalk hills, . covered at the top with 

 fome foil and a fine verdure, and including 

 ftrata of flints, as it frequently is found in this 

 kind of chalk-hills in the refl of England. 

 And we were delighted in viewing on them 

 excellent corn fields, covered for the greatefl 

 part with wheat, then ripening. 



At fix o'clock at night, we arrived at 

 Deal, a little well known town, fituate at 

 the entrance of a bay expofed to the fouth- 

 ern and eaflerly winds. Here commonly 

 the outward bound fhips provide themfelves 

 with greens, frefh victuals, brandy, and 

 many more articles. This trade, a fifhery, 

 and in the laft war the equipping of priva- 

 teers, has enriched the inhabitants. 



Augujl the 7th. When the tide was 

 out, I faw numbers of fifhermen reforting 

 to the fandy fhallow places, where they 

 find round fmall eminences caufed by the 

 excrements of the log worms, ovfea worms, 

 (Lumbrici marini. Linn.) who live in the 

 holes leading to thefe hillocks, fometimes 

 eighteen inches deep, and they are then 

 dug out with a fmall three tacked iron fork 

 and ufed as baits. 



Auguft the 8th. At three o'clock we 

 tided down the channel, pafTed Dover, and 

 faw plainly the opinion of the celebrated 

 Camden in his Britannia confirmed, that 



here 



