Excerpt from Lost England: The Story of Our Submerged Coasts When we proclaim to all the universe that Britannia rules the waves we are merely giving poetical expression to a fact - Britain's naval supremacy. Taking the national phrase literally, old Ocean is so far from acknowledging his subjugation, that he exacts from this island an appalling annual tribute. We pay in lives and we pay also in land. Many amongst us who know all about the human price of Admiralty, know little or nothing about that other sacrifice which ...
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Excerpt from Lost England: The Story of Our Submerged Coasts When we proclaim to all the universe that Britannia rules the waves we are merely giving poetical expression to a fact - Britain's naval supremacy. Taking the national phrase literally, old Ocean is so far from acknowledging his subjugation, that he exacts from this island an appalling annual tribute. We pay in lives and we pay also in land. Many amongst us who know all about the human price of Admiralty, know little or nothing about that other sacrifice which has been going on since the dawn of our Motherland's history - that of the sea-coasts, of the many towns, beauteous villages and smiling pastures which have been swept away for ever into the insatiable salt flood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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