The Kentish Coast (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Kentish Coast Where does the coast of Kent begin? It begins at Deptford, that crowded London suburb which would doubtless be considerably aston ished in contemplating itself as a seaside town, and in fact does not do so. Yet Deptford's old naval history and Ship-yard associations give it a salt-water ¿avour, and SO we must needs say that the coast begins there. True, it is but the Thames whose murky waters lap the Shore at Deptford, but the Thames here is the great commercial London River, as seamen call it, the port to which resorts a goodly proportion of the world's Shipping, and sea-going vessels crowd the fairway at all hours of day and night. Past Greenwich, Woolwich, and Erith the Thames goes in its gradually broadening course, and at length comes to Gravesend. Gravesend Reach is, and has always been, by general con sensus of opinion, the Sea-gate Of London, and therefore, without any manner of doubt, on the coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.