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BEACHY-HEAD

Volume 4 · 44 words · 1860 Edition

a promontory on the coast of Sussex, between Hastings and Brighton, where the French defeated the English and Dutch fleet in 1690. It has a lighthouse with a revolving light 285 feet above high-water mark, in Long. 0. 13. E. Lat. 50. 44. N.