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Excerpt from The Antiquary, Vol. 7: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past; January June The importance of these potteries and their extent we can but faintly realize; but we cannot for a moment suppose the Romans would have left them to the mercies of the overflowing tide. Their imperial ideas of public works - their roads, their aqueducts, and their bridges - were models of construe tive skill and durability. What a contrast is presented by the Up church marshes at the' present time, with their sea-covered mud flats, the home of the curlew and other Wildfowl! The corporations who are supposed to exercise jurisdiction over these low-lying tracts of land, and who are armed by special Acts of Parliament to enable them to stay the inroads of the sea, are, like the Medway barges lying at low level moorings. At present the owners of land are supposed to look after their indi vidual interests in the matter of sea protection. But these are sometimes conflicting, and one individual cannot protect his land by a sea wall, unless his neighbours do likewise. This laissez faire system of proceeding, or rather not proceeding, will not do in an age of sanitary inspectors and boards of health. Port Victoria may bring some change in this respect, and embankments, in course of time, again alter the face of the country. 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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