454 -KALM'S ENGLAND. 



' went with the tidal current from thence along the Channel, 

 but not faster than the stream drove us. We had the 

 English coast at a short distance on our right-hand. It 

 consisted of bare chalk, was tolerably high, and stood 

 for the most part perpendicular. 



At 10 o'clock in the morning we passed Dover, which 



is a little spot with a Castell above it on a hill. The 



country here along the coast was in some places quite 



steep, in other places long-sloping for about half an 



English mile, above which the high chalk hills came on, 



togO emot. These were not perpendicular, but more 



sloping, and now over-grown with grass. When the 



land had gone so long-sloping for a certain distance, it 



again became steep and perpendicular, so that bare 



white chalk appeared, fn the afternoon the wind blew 



rather fresh, blaste en liten kul, so we luffed (lovemde)* 



off and on between the English and French coasts. We 



were "sometimes not far from the French side, so that we 



could, especially with a glass (Persfiectiv) , clearly see 



houses, fields, &c. Here, I remember what I read in 



Camden's Britannia, viz., that he says that he early 



formed the opinion that England had formerly joined on 



to Francef or Flanders, where Dover and Calais now lie, 



by some small arm, and that the sea had afterwards 



washed it away, or some other accident now unknown to 



us, had come to destroy the same arm or ness, arm 



eller nas. I for my part am much inclined [T. II. 



p. 107] to believe the same when I consider the following 



facts, viz., that England opposite Calais, between Deal 



* Sw. Lofvera, Fr. Louvoyer, Ger. Laviren, Ens*, Luff. Bailey, Eng. Die, 

 1736, has " To fooj (commonly pronounced luff) a- term used in conding of a 

 ship, as ioof, &c, i.e., keep the ship nearer the wind." [J. L.] 



f To say nothing of the uncertain conjecture of several writers, Antonius 

 Volscius, Dominicus Marius Niger, Servius Honoratus, Joh. Twine, Guil. 

 Musgrave, and Henry, Hist, of Btn.—Viei. [J. L.] 



