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"The Sussex, maritime County in SE. of England, bounded N.
and NE. by Surrey and Kent, SE. and S. by the English Channel,
and W. and NW. by Hants; greatest length, N. and S., 27 miles;
greatest breadth, E. and W., 76 miles; area, 933,269 acres,
population 490,505. From the Hants border, near Petersfield,
to Beachy Head, the county is traversed by the South Downs;
to the N. of this range of chalk hills is the valley of the
Weald, rising into the Forest Ridge on the NE., and sinking
on the SE., towards the sea, into wide marshes. The rivers
are not important; they are the Arun, Adur, Ouse, and Rother,
all flowing S. to the English Channel.[Transcribed from Bartholomew's
Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887.]
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