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Excerpt from Arch ologia Cantiana, Vol. 1: Being the Transactions of the Kent Arch ological Society Spaniard, the Muscovite and the Dane; archbishops and cardinals; kings and emperors; whatever of ambi tion, of gain, or pleasure, can enter the heart or prompt the actions and motives of man - here all passed and repassed; here found shelter in the abbeys or palaces, the hostelries or manor-houses of Kent. No busier mart in all England: none more rich or more diversified, could imagination recall and reinvest the scene. From bluff headland to shelving down, from salt flood to ebbing stream, from hop-gardens, cherry-orchards, meads, and cornfields, homestead or manor-house, ances tral hall or feudal castle, to Roman keep or Celtic bar row, Saxon burg or Norman cathedral, what wants our Kent of instruction, meditation, and delight? Here are the usages and customs embalmed, here the thoughts and feelings of every generation, that has stood and rested on English soil. In its dust are the ashes of Celt, Bel gian, Roman, Saxon, Dane, and Norman. Here the Ro man landed, never to return here he surrounded him self with the arts of civilized life. Here the Saxon still wandered in the forest, without disloyalty to his ancient creed; and the Dane in its bright bays and creeks still gazed on that element which reminded him of his N orse forefathers, and filled the sea With Visions not less en nobling than the Saxon found by land. 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.

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