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CHATHAM.
the Admiralty. Ships are built at Chatham, and
laid up there during peace, for which purpose it
is admirably calculated ; but there are very few
vessels equipped for immediate service: that ope-
ration is rhost judiciously transferred to Ports-
mouth, Plymouth, &c.
The aseent from Chatham in the road to Can-
terbury is very abrupt. So much so that a drivci
of any humanity must in list upon his pasfengers
alighting, to avoid injuring the horses. The
weary pedestrian may however amuse himself by
plealing glimpses of landscape; and when he
arrives at the summit many villas mew the dis-
tant waters to the North-east, scattered with
vesfels riding at anchor, and others with swelling
sails pursuing their various voyages. Hence to
Canterbury the road affords a thousand rich scenes,
with blue fields and foliage, softened into the
tints of the air ; and every valley has its mansions,
inclosed by trees that gracefully bend round the
Owner's dwelling, shading him from the rays of a
fervid sun, and sheltering him from the chill blast
that injures the health of himself and family.
Those are always plealing, whether disposed by
the hand of taste or accident.
An eminence, eight miles srom Canterbury,
commands a full view of the city, or rather its
cathedral. This grand object graces the horizon,
c and
the Admiralty. Ships are built at Chatham, and
laid up there during peace, for which purpose it
is admirably calculated ; but there are very few
vessels equipped for immediate service: that ope-
ration is rhost judiciously transferred to Ports-
mouth, Plymouth, &c.
The aseent from Chatham in the road to Can-
terbury is very abrupt. So much so that a drivci
of any humanity must in list upon his pasfengers
alighting, to avoid injuring the horses. The
weary pedestrian may however amuse himself by
plealing glimpses of landscape; and when he
arrives at the summit many villas mew the dis-
tant waters to the North-east, scattered with
vesfels riding at anchor, and others with swelling
sails pursuing their various voyages. Hence to
Canterbury the road affords a thousand rich scenes,
with blue fields and foliage, softened into the
tints of the air ; and every valley has its mansions,
inclosed by trees that gracefully bend round the
Owner's dwelling, shading him from the rays of a
fervid sun, and sheltering him from the chill blast
that injures the health of himself and family.
Those are always plealing, whether disposed by
the hand of taste or accident.
An eminence, eight miles srom Canterbury,
commands a full view of the city, or rather its
cathedral. This grand object graces the horizon,
c and