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be moored \ while they are loading other rocks , which they take 
from hence , riot only for our own pier -he ads 9 hut for thofe of 
Dover Pier ; and a very great quantity of them were Jhipped in 
the time of Olivers ufurpation^ and carried to Dunkirk^ for 
the fervice of that harbour . Confidering, therefore, that the 
enormous pile of Ramfgate Pier has been built fince that time*, 
(which, though it be chiefly compofed of Portland ftone, had, 
I apprehend, foundations and interior parts of ruder materials) 
and that there have been other vaft demands for ftone, it is not 
at all unlikely, that this very Mooring Rock , mentioned by Mr* 
Sackette, has itfelf been carried away in like manner as 
the others were that ufed to furronnd it ; and that this is the 
fble reafon why it is now no longer known, and totally 
forgotten, 
I am, Sir, with much efteem, &c. 
EDWARD KING, 
P. S. There is a peculiarity in Mr. Lyon*s fketch, Tab. V* 
(defigned to illuftrate the grounds of his objeftions to Mr* 
Sackette’s conclufions) which demands fome explanation*. 
After having given a fedtion of the cliff and fhore, the lines 
(inftead of being continued in the fame plane, and in the direc- 
tion of the fame fedtion) are drawn fo, as to be conceived as ex- 
tended on the furface of the country from the eye of the obferver 
at E. Without attending to this circumftance, what he fays is* 
not very eafily to be underftood ; and indeed I mull hill think* 
that Mr. Sackette does not deferve fo much cenfure, although 
Mr. Lyon’s be undoubtedly a mod accurate account, and moft 
clear folution of the prefent phenomenon. 
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