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DOVER. 37
cliff under which the town is situated, in order
to feast my senses with the sublime scene a view
from it exhibits. Fully determined that the
impression should be indelible, I inslexibly kept
my back to the Channel till I had attained the
extreme summit ; when turning, the eye in-
stantly encompasYed the circuit, commencing
with the precipices of the South Foreland ;
which arising abruptly from the sea, in crags of
the purest white, (faintly tinged with the green of
scattered plants, clinging by ssender fibres in the
fisiures,) ascend as they approach the Castle,
frowning on their brow, inclosed by long wralls
widely spread on their surface. The plate an-
nexed shews this portion of the scene. The
fence in the fore-ground hangs on the very edge
os the gulph, from which a stone might be
thrown into the streets of Dover ; and on the
shore near it is the linoular manlion of the late
O
Captain Smith, to be more particularly noticed
hereaster.
On the right a chain os precipices terminate
with Shakespeare's cliff; and, imperfectly dis-
cerned, in the distance are the heights of Dunge-
ness; hence the eye leaps the vast expanse of the
English Channel ; and, proceeding Northward,
traces the mountainous tracts os France Eastward
of Dieppe, St. Vallery, Montreuil, &c. in blue
d lines,
cliff under which the town is situated, in order
to feast my senses with the sublime scene a view
from it exhibits. Fully determined that the
impression should be indelible, I inslexibly kept
my back to the Channel till I had attained the
extreme summit ; when turning, the eye in-
stantly encompasYed the circuit, commencing
with the precipices of the South Foreland ;
which arising abruptly from the sea, in crags of
the purest white, (faintly tinged with the green of
scattered plants, clinging by ssender fibres in the
fisiures,) ascend as they approach the Castle,
frowning on their brow, inclosed by long wralls
widely spread on their surface. The plate an-
nexed shews this portion of the scene. The
fence in the fore-ground hangs on the very edge
os the gulph, from which a stone might be
thrown into the streets of Dover ; and on the
shore near it is the linoular manlion of the late
O
Captain Smith, to be more particularly noticed
hereaster.
On the right a chain os precipices terminate
with Shakespeare's cliff; and, imperfectly dis-
cerned, in the distance are the heights of Dunge-
ness; hence the eye leaps the vast expanse of the
English Channel ; and, proceeding Northward,
traces the mountainous tracts os France Eastward
of Dieppe, St. Vallery, Montreuil, &c. in blue
d lines,