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Originally published in 1914, the Kentish Coast by Charles G. Harper

is one of many self- travel books exploring the regions, roads,

coastlines, literary connections, old inn, and more of Britain. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now. Now take a few deep breaths. Chapter 8.

GONESTIN, GONESTIN, Graveney, Sea Salter, Witz

and the Oyster Fishery.

The road from Faversham to Witztable winds level for long distances, passing at first through a charming district of

Cherry Orcharts, interspersed with emerald pastures, with sheep feeding under the trees

and evidences of much poultry keeping in the many coops filled with anxious hands

clucking nervously after their young broods. Here, too, you see Hop Gardens, looking

more than a little bear in spring, but with plenty of work going on, chiefly in trimming and tarring the ends of the new

ash poles that are to be planted, thick as forests for the hop binds to grow upon.

Here and there are the hutches in which the Hop Pickers will live in August.

And now and again you see an Oast house, the old buildings with their quaint outlines, the new apt to be eye

sorrows for angularity and sheer commonplace ugliness. It is perhaps best to come this way in the

sweet of the

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