Stanfield's Coast scenery - a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France (1847) (14596480638)

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Title: Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867
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Publisher: London : Smith, Elder and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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nd mother with her daughterdear—some group of truth and nature that makes us bless the worldwe live in—or haply it may rest on one fair form that, evening afterevening, has been seen on the beaten track inhaling a momentary fresh-ness from the grateful breeze, and creating hope destined to die, in someattendant relative, who vainly fancies that the hectic glow is no transientvisitor, and that health is again about to illuminate a countenance thatwill convey gladness to a family of rejoicing hearts too surely doomedto mourn. Such are sea-side scenes ; and in Ramsgate they are more abundantthan in most places on the eastern coast,—not that fashion sends thitherher votaries (though she does), nor that the place is cheap (for it is not),nor that the air is most salubrious (which it is,) but because the universalagent, steam, carries visitors in safety round the North Foreland, on theMargate side of which, before this agency came into operation, thesailing-packets used to land thern.
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119 BROADSTAIRS. Broadstairs* is a small seaport and hamlet in the parish of St. Peter,the same parish which forms part of Ramsgate—from which place it isbut two miles distant. It was anciently called Bradston, and exhibitsvestiges of once having been a place of importance. Subsequently itwas reduced to a mere fishing village, but again has obtained somecelebrity as a place of resort for sea-bathers, the influx of which classhas caused a due proportion of buildings to be erected under the novelnames of Hotels, Boarding Houses, and Warm Baths. With respect tothe Boarding Houses, it is shrewdly recorded by some travellers whohave explored the country in that direction, that there is nothing in theexteriors to please the lover of antiquities, although their interiors aboundat particular periods with the choicest and strangest specimens. For the accommodation of the fishermen a small wooden pier was builtabout the time of Henry VIII., and although an Act of Parliament waspassed in the 3