Gris-nez, CAPE, a headland (164 feet high) in the French department of Pas-de-Calais, opposite Dover, is the point of land nearest to the English shore, the distance being barely 20 miles. About equally distant from Calais on the north-east and Boulogne on the south, the cape marks the dividing line between the North Sea and the English Channel. It has a lighthouse.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 428
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