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iiear the Cattle, and the other on Bredenttone hill.
Exclulive of those beacons we have no marks that
will prove any attempt from the Romans to im-
prove the harbour; which, from their time till
the far subsequent wars between the rival powers
of England and France, mull have remained sub-
jecTh to the fury of the sea, and consequently sud-
den changes. According to Halted, John Clerk,
matter of the Maison Dieu, who received the
patronage of Henry VII. for the purpose, erected
a round tower on the South-west side; which
seems to have ansvvered for the then shipping ;
but whether the seamen of England would conde-
scend to fatten their vesfels to it at present is to
me rather doubtful. It would be difficult to
discover the fate of that tower; but it may easily
be conjectured when we remember that, in the
25th year of Henry VIII. an attempt was made to
drive piles, to be fattened with bars of iron, and
the intervals filled with rocks, to reslst the force
of the sea ; and that lince that period infinite
kbour has been in vain expended to keep out the
furious element, and its accompanying sand and
mud. In 1802 the vessels lay dry at ebb tide,
and are like to do so in—1902.
The Sun revisited the earth on the following
morning in perfect splendour; and I hurried
from my breakfatt, up the rugged sides of the
cliff
iiear the Cattle, and the other on Bredenttone hill.
Exclulive of those beacons we have no marks that
will prove any attempt from the Romans to im-
prove the harbour; which, from their time till
the far subsequent wars between the rival powers
of England and France, mull have remained sub-
jecTh to the fury of the sea, and consequently sud-
den changes. According to Halted, John Clerk,
matter of the Maison Dieu, who received the
patronage of Henry VII. for the purpose, erected
a round tower on the South-west side; which
seems to have ansvvered for the then shipping ;
but whether the seamen of England would conde-
scend to fatten their vesfels to it at present is to
me rather doubtful. It would be difficult to
discover the fate of that tower; but it may easily
be conjectured when we remember that, in the
25th year of Henry VIII. an attempt was made to
drive piles, to be fattened with bars of iron, and
the intervals filled with rocks, to reslst the force
of the sea ; and that lince that period infinite
kbour has been in vain expended to keep out the
furious element, and its accompanying sand and
mud. In 1802 the vessels lay dry at ebb tide,
and are like to do so in—1902.
The Sun revisited the earth on the following
morning in perfect splendour; and I hurried
from my breakfatt, up the rugged sides of the
cliff