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 to find that England is really so English.

But to begin actually from the beginning I will draw a little picture of how England looks when you approach it from the English Channel.

The white part consists simply of rocks, and grass grows on the top. It is built quite solidly on rock, so to say; but to have a continent under your feet feels somewhat safer, I must admit. Now I will draw Folkestone, where I disembarked. In the sunset it looked like a castle with battlements; later it turned out that these were only