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Downs

(Sussex) the South Downs.
Let's just go for a walk on the Downs.
A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
- Cook (First Voyage)
  On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel […] at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.

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