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Title: Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain (electronic resource) : during the years 1810 and 1811
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Simond, L. (Louis), 1767-1831
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel Great Britain -- Social life and customs 19th century
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, the high wind, and spray of the sea,we did not leave the spot till night. Being over-taken by the tide in a nook of the shore, fromwhich the retreat was difficult, my portfolio droptin the water, and I was near losing all the sketchesof the journey. I annex here three of this spot.Two frigates were lost on this dangerous coast,,three miles from Dunbar, last December. I can-not resist the temptation of giving here a few linesby Mr Coleridge, very descriptive of Englishscenery, and of its insular situation. O, Ali)ion! O my mother isle!Thy vaiiics, fair as Edens howers,Glitter green with sunny showers;Thy grassy uplands, gentle swells,Echo to the bleat of flocks ;(Those grassy hills, those glittering dells,Iroudly ramparted witii rocks;)And Ocean, mid his uproar wild,Speaks safety to his island-child. Feb. 2G.—We have travelled to-day along thesea-shore. The surf was moderate, meeting withfewer rocks than about Dunbar. Beyond the broadexpanse of mild blue, a mist hung over the hori-
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DUNGLASS FARMING, 55 zon, through which a white sail was faintly seenhere and there, gHding along peacefully betweentwo hostile shores. The country appeared highlycultivated, in large farms, as in Norfolk •.—im-mense turnip-fields, with flocks of sheep feed-ing on the green part, and scooping out as muchof the fresh root as they can, the deeper partremaining in the ground for manure. The frost isentirely out of the ground, and the grass shewsalready a tinge of green. Farmers are at workeverywhere ; five or six ploughs together in thesame field, each with a fine pair of horses. Farm-houses in good repair, and cottages tolerably neat,but inferior to those of England. This scene ofindustry and rich agriculture was suddenly inter-rupted near the Press Inn by a heath of severalmiles, appearing just as fit for cultivation as therest of the country, where farms rent at the exor-bitant price of eight or ten pounds the Scotch acre.The house of Sir James Hall (Dunglass,) is seenon a woody h

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