with us) had swept away the beach opposite the Albion, I distinctly traced the line of piles curving inward, marking that point as the head of the pier : and it was at this same point that the two streams-- the Bourne down George Street, and the Brook down Castle Street, mingled together as they flowed into the sea, and formed the backwater of the new harbour.
All ancient records agree as to the sudden and frequent irregularities of the sea on this part of the coast. Has this any connection with the meeting of the two great tidal streams about the Downs of Deal? Do they ever shift their place of meeting? Pennant says that it is off Fairlight that the northern tide flowing from the German Sea, through the straits of Dover meets with a great rippling, the tide from the vast Atlantic, which is sensibly felt between this place and Boulogne.
To pursue the history of the town any further would be to abandon the demesnes of archaeology, and I, therefore, here conclude what has been to me a most pleasant task.
