last-covered

Updated: January 23, 2026

As the tide flowed, they crowded on to the highest and last-covered islets, whence, as the inexorable tide again rose, they took wing and flew swiftly to the Essex shore. The Sluis, looking across to the Kentish shore, is the home of the seagulls.

C. J. (Charles John) Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames