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34 i> OVER.
Dover commences in a long street, far frorh
being well built. This however improves after
passing the market-place; and hence, through
the whole extent, it abounds with convenient
and even elegant houses. The avenues on the
left are numerous, and (hewed me, as I passed,
the white sails of the Ihips as the Moon illumi-
nated them*
Dover harbour is of infinite importance in a
point of view congenial to the tenor of my mind^
and when the reader is informed, that it is ad-
mirably suited to the reception of vesfels in
danger from storms, and particularly those driven
from their anchors in the Downs, I trust he will
not deem the following account of it uninterest-
ing. It is now in a state of comparative insigni-
ficance ; and had within it when I was there but
few vessels, the largest of which were not more
than 200 or 250 tons burthen ; indeed, the
majority were old privateers of England and
France, and the beautiful bye-boats of those
nations for the conveyance of paslengers.
In the year 1689 seventy sail of merchant mips
were driven from their anchors, and found resuge
in this harbour: a sufficient proof of its import-
ance, for the loss of those would have been full
^.140,000, exclusive of the horrors of a watery
grave
Dover commences in a long street, far frorh
being well built. This however improves after
passing the market-place; and hence, through
the whole extent, it abounds with convenient
and even elegant houses. The avenues on the
left are numerous, and (hewed me, as I passed,
the white sails of the Ihips as the Moon illumi-
nated them*
Dover harbour is of infinite importance in a
point of view congenial to the tenor of my mind^
and when the reader is informed, that it is ad-
mirably suited to the reception of vesfels in
danger from storms, and particularly those driven
from their anchors in the Downs, I trust he will
not deem the following account of it uninterest-
ing. It is now in a state of comparative insigni-
ficance ; and had within it when I was there but
few vessels, the largest of which were not more
than 200 or 250 tons burthen ; indeed, the
majority were old privateers of England and
France, and the beautiful bye-boats of those
nations for the conveyance of paslengers.
In the year 1689 seventy sail of merchant mips
were driven from their anchors, and found resuge
in this harbour: a sufficient proof of its import-
ance, for the loss of those would have been full
^.140,000, exclusive of the horrors of a watery
grave