3 ' DEAL. 
is tet med Lower Deal received a great a in extent of 
about the commencement of the 
a confiderable maritime town, con- 
of Tae a eae running parallel with the fea, 
and connected by others more or tes. narrow; which, as is 
common in fea-ports, render them both incommodic rs and 
The houles are irregularly aaa Lapa oe! of brick ; 
8, greater attention 
has been paid to uniformity. Since ie year 1790, when 
an act was obtained for paving, lighting, and cleanfing the 
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of perfons vifiting the place “during the bathing feafon. 
The mother-church bein found too {mall, and inconveniently 
diftant, ac of eafe was eredted in the lower town 
fubfeription, in the year 1707. The caftle; which ftands to 
the fouth of t wn, is furrounded b fofs, croflc 
by a draw-bridge. It confifts ae of a d tower, 
containing apartments for the officers and garrifon who 
attend the battery. But the pane dae of this place 
is derived from the marteilo towers, and other batteries which 
al e are alfo an exteufive 
naval and military hofpital, and a large houfe of induttry. 
The fea mewn oppofite the town is called the Downs, 
which has bec a general rendezvo 
men of war, ae a 
tributed poe to the increafe of Deal. In time of war, 
the immenfe influx of people, and the conftant demand for 
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eonfifls of twenty-four pilots, five of when: are conftituted 
wardens; and the lateer, of twenty-five. The charges of 
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all human ‘fil, and nothing ik inftant deftruc- 
tion is expected by the labouring veffels 3 two or more hovel- 
ling boats will be frequently feen riding upon the bofom of 
the wave, as if in defiance of the contending elements. Nu- 
merous are the inftances in which the brave crews of thefe 
apparently Hee ee veffels, have ee ee in refcu- 
nag moft imminent per. 
utupie, 
the prefent Richborough; but C d the authors of 
re) d Wales, conclude that it mu 
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fter mentioning the advantageous 
pofition the Britons had taken on the heights of Dover, and 
convinced of the folly of attempting a landing there, Cafar 
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count 
o et fublatis anchoris circiter 
millium eatin vili., ab eo se a aperto, et plano 
littore naves eoniinne? i. e. havin a fignal, weighed 
anchor, and failed eight miles an up, “ie brought to his 
fhips on a plain and open fhore. A defcription which agrees 
with the coait near Deal, for it is the firlt low fhore to the 
north of Dover; and fome entrenchments, ftil to be traced, 
are fuppofed the fite of his maritime camp. t this place 
Perkin heel er landed from France, when he perfonated 
the duke of York, under which title he laid claim to the 
crown of Eoglen 
The amount of the population of Deal, as rournes under 
— late act, was 5420, andt 
he eharter of king William, two week 
Tuelays and Dies pie an 
Hitt. of Ke Beanti és. 
The Cees {ands, aalled by H<tor Boethius, «* Naviu 
gurges & vorago, a mot dreadful gulf and fhip-fwallower .” 
though they ferve as a kind of natural pier, and form the 
fouthern boundary of the 
fhips coming from the 
them in boilterous winds with unabating fury. Thefe fands 
exten 
fates, in his Commentaries, which contain his own ac 
of his campaigns, ‘ Dato fign 
e to aie and 
he fouthfand-head Kingfdown, ‘Tradition has repre- 
fented thefe ae ag onc ifland, which aeciee to ea 
great earl Godwin, and that it fader ly funk, “ina 
{wallowed by t ie fea, as a fignal mark of divine ven 
geance on the heinous fins of that nobleman. oie from 
Gyraldus’ account and that of Hedor Boethius, the event 
appears to have more naturally happened pie the eid of 
the reign of William Rufus, or begioning of Henry the I.’s, 
thofe fudden neon, 
phenomenon to ace on the coatts of Flanders, 
whereby a large tract of country was a and, at the 
fame time, a fimilar injury, though not to an equal extent, 
was done on the fhores of England on Scotland. 
fent ftate of the ancient Portus Rutuvenfis, ard of Sand- 
wich haven, afiord ftriking evidence of the fea having for- 
owe it does at prefent on this 
en 
ee the coa anger of ftriking on the fands is 
defcribed by Mr. Seaton to arife from their nature, which is 
that of a * quickfand, clean and uuconnetted;” yet lying 
fo clofe, as to render it difficult to work a pointed bar to 
the depth of more than fix or feven feet. t low water 
they are dry in many parts, and parties ple land on 
them; but when the tide begins to flow, and becomes 
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erected a light-houfe upon thefe fands; bu pia 
being obtained by boring, the defign was laid alid 
floating light has been placed on the eaft fide of the north 
fand- head, which has proved highly beneficial. Beauiies of 
England and Wales, vol. viii. Pe aes tion of Kent, 
iftorical Report of Ramfgate Har 
About one mile fouth of Deal is fieuated Walmer, at the 
1S 9° . 
al reet, and confit 
refpeable families, 
tance from the village, nearly clofe on the fea fhore; and 
comrantls, from its windows, a beautiful view c the 
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