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it lasted ; but before that, as long as the stream was 

 against us, we had cast anchor. At daybreak we passed 

 one of England's promontories, uddar, called Dungeness. 

 At 9 o'clock the stream was against us, when we cast 

 anchor nearly opposite Fanlight. On the sea it was now 

 so calm that the water scarcely moved beyond that the 

 stream drove it. We could see the English coast quite 

 easily, which was in some places high, steep, and sloping, 

 almost perpendicular, and in other places long-sloping. 

 The perpendicular earth walls near the sea did not here 

 consist of chalk, but of a light grey earth. We could 

 nowhere see a sign of chalk in them. The French coast 

 lay so far from us that we could scarcely see it. At 

 12 o'clock noon it began to blow somewhat, when we 

 lifted anchor, unfurled the sails, and with tacking, drew 

 away. 



We were sometimes right under the English coast 

 near Fairlight, which coast did not here consist of chalk 

 but of a grey fine sand, as far as we could discover with 

 the glass and the naked eye ; besides this, Captain 

 Lawson confirmed the same. This coast also was steep 

 enough, so that no one could climb up it without a ladder, 

 stega, or some other instrument, verktyg, but in some 

 places it was long-sloping. The country above it was, 

 like the rest of England we saw, a collection of hills 

 [T. II. p. 109] side by side, with dales between. Yet 

 the hills here were more gently sloping. On them lay 

 ploughed fields, meadows, and pastures, which were all 

 enclosed with green hedges and leaf-trees. Here and 

 there some churches appeared on the hills, with quite 

 little short and pointed steeples on massive towers, which 

 had been so built, that the wind which here has a large 

 field to gather strength upon, might not blow them over. 

 We could see no chalk cliffs or hills here. Towards 

 evening we cast anchor for a short time, but as a gentle 



