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THE BRITISH ISLES. 



for the Kino-'s service. We may fairly doubt whether J alius Cœsar landed in Peven- 

 sey Bay, but there can be no question of its having sheltered, in lOdO, the nine 

 hundred vessels which brought William the Conqueror's host to England. It was 

 from here he marched upon the village of Epiton, now known as Battle, where he 

 overthrew the Saxons under King Harold. On the spot where the Saxon standard 



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was captured and King Harold fell, the victorious Norman caused an abbey to be 

 erected, which he endowed with the prettily wooded land for a league around, and 

 with numerous manors in other parts of the kingdom. At the village of Brightling, 

 near here, a great boring for coal took place in 1876 ; the bore extended to a depth 

 of 2,000 feet without reaching coal, but it passed through a bed of gypsum which 

 is now being worked. 



