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The slope became steeper lower down the hill, and the regular ledges then reappeared. Another of my sons observed, on the inland side of Beachy Head, where the surface sloped at about 25 degrees, many short little embankments like those just mentioned. They extended horizontally and were from a few inches to two or three feet in length. They supported tufts of grass growing vigorously.
To the eastward of this chalk promontory was a large fine-looking town, which stretched in a wide semicircle round the shores of a curving bay. "That's Beachy Head," said Sampson, pointing at the cliff. "It's the hoiest p'int down Channel, and they have a look-out place up there to report ships as pass. It was a Muster Lloyd as put it up.
Two cables to Belgium: Ramsgate to Ostend , and Dover to Furness . Four cables to France: Dover to Calais, laid in 1851 , and to Boulogne , laid in 1859; Beachy Head to Dieppe , and to Havre . A word now as to the instruments used for the transmission of messages. Those for cables are of two kinds, the mirror galvanometer and the siphon recorder, both the product of Sir Wm.
On the following evening, shortly before sunset, Annabel and he walked on the short dry grass of the Down that rises to Beachy Head. There had been another day of supreme tranquillity, of blurred sunshine, of soothing autumnal warmth. And this was the crowning hour. The mist had drifted from the land and the sea; as the two continued their ascent, the view became lovelier.
After the sacking of the station on Beachy Head, what more likely than that this cottage should be seized for Government purposes and garrisoned? his own chaps too, sailors not those swaggering snobs in red coats. If so, he saw his course clear as day. There was the privateer. Somewhere among these huge smooth hills lurked the Gentleman, primed with his fatal message.
By the next morning the white chalk of Beachy Head was in sight, and at nine o'clock William had landed on English soil. Close to Dives and in sight of the hill on which the Normans were mustered, there is a small watering-place known as Houlgate-sur-mer.
The Parson was staring through the spy-glass at Beachy Head. A mile and a half away, it lay in misty splendour, not unlike a lion sleeping. At the foot of it a few tiny black figures moved among the rocks. "I make out about a score of em," he said. "The boat's beached, and a man over it. I can catch the glint on his gun-barrel. We can't get at em except along the shore, hang it!
Winds at South-West, a fresh Gale, with which we run briskly up Channel. At 1/2 past 3 p.m. passed the Bill of Portland, and at 7 Peverell Point; at 6 a.m. passed Beachy head at the distance of 4 or 5 miles; at 10 Dungeness, at the distance of 2 miles, and at Noon we were abreast of Dover. Saturday, 13th.
"I think so too: but there'll be a breeze, depend upon it never mind, the devil will have his own all in good time." "Got for dam," said Jansen, looking at Beachy Head, and shaking his own. "Why, what's the matter now, old Schnapps?" said Coble. "Schnapps yes the tyfel Schnapps, I think how the French schnapped us Dutchmen here when you Englishment wouldn't fight."
By the time Torrington sent this reply he had been pressed back as far as Beachy Head; it was no longer possible to get to the westward; and the following day, finding himself to windward, he attacked. But still confirmed in his idea of defence, and carrying it on to his tactics, he refused to give the French the chance of a real decision, and disengaged as soon as a drop in the wind permitted.
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