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one place and another a piece of land [called ' Salting ' 

 or ' Saltings '] has grown up outside the wall, which, 

 when it is large, is often taken in within the walls by this 

 means. A new wall is built outside it, and the old one 

 inside is torn down ; but this must be with the consent 

 of those who have the direction of the walls.* 



Nyttan af Flint-sten. The use of Flints. 



The whole country at this border, mostly consists of 

 bare chalk, in amongst which is found a great number of 

 flint-stones, both large and small. In the Chalk pits, 

 krit-groparna, these flint stones are collected together 

 from the chalk, laid in great heaps, and sold to strangers, 

 who on the voyage from London often take a large 

 quantity of them in passing. Here, in Gravesend, the 

 streets were paved entirely with flints. 



On the S.E. side, about an English mile from 

 Gravesend, was a very ancient church, f which [T. I. 

 p. 480] in short, was entirely built of bare flints, except 

 that they had used Portland stone for the frames and 

 arches around doors and windows,! and in some places § 

 covered the tops of the walls with it. Some Portland 

 stone was also here and there built into the walls. 



Tegel-branneri. The brick-kiln thus seems to have 



* The Commissioners of Sewers. {]. L.] 



f St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (Rectory), Milton Parish. [J. L.] 

 % The tower has buttresses — nearly as much Portland stone as flint. At 

 E. end P. S. predominates. Porch on S. side alternate regular courses. E. 

 window, now perpendicular, 8 feet 6 inches wide — an insertion — has been 

 originally 14 feet wide. There are two original two-light windows on N. 

 side. Cruden gives {Hist, of Gravesend, p. 70) a view of one, and says 

 there were six in 1843, and that the church was built between 1307 and 



1377- [J-L-] 



§ Somligstads cannot refer to the stone battlements which then existed. 



Irregular patches of stone are still seen along the top of the church wall 



(Aug. 4th, 1887). The battlements are shown in the Frontispiece to Pocock's 



Hist, of Gravesend, 1797, which gives a view of Milton Church from the 



S. West. [J. L.] 



