coast, and answers the double purpose of belfry and landmark.*

* MARGATE offers every convenience to the Tourist, as the following list will shew:

CHAPELS:-Wesleyan Methodists, and Independent, Hawley Square.-Baptist, Ebenezer Chapel, and another at Shallows, two miles off.-Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, Zion Chapel. Roman Catholic Chapel. Friends' Meeting at Drapers, half a mile distant.-Plymouth Brethren.

HOTELS-Royal Hotel, Cecil Square.-London Hotel, Hawley Square.-York Hotel, Marine Parade.-White Hart, Marine Parade.-Duke's Head, near the Pier.-The Fountain, and several others.

BATHS:-Bathing Rooms, High Street-Clifton Baths, on the Fort.-Bathing Machines on the beach.

THEATRE ROYAL, Hawley Square.

Cecil Square.

ASSEMBLY ROOM,

RIDES:-Dandelion, Birchington, Quex, St. Nicholas, Sarr, and return by Monkton, Minster, Mount Pleasant, Cleve Court, Acoll Woodchurch, and Nash Court. Northdown, Kingsgate, North Foreland, Broad-Stairs, and return by St. Peter's, Shallows, and Sackett's Hill. Stonar, with the tomb of Vortigern. Walks:-Muthrix, Garlinge, and Westgate. Buenos Ayres and Westbrook. Hartsdown and Tivoli, Drapers, Salmestone Grange. Twenties, Chapel Bottom, Hengrove.

RAILWAY TRIPS: Principal Terminus, Ramsgate, which see. GENTLEMEN'S SEATS :- Walters Hall,6 miles. Cleve Court, 5 miles. Birchington Place, 3 miles. Quex Park, 4 miles. Grove House, Dandelion, 1 mile, Hart's-down House, I mile. North-down House, and North-down Hall, 1 mile. Sackett's Hill House, 2 miles. Dane Court, 2 miles. Kingsgate Castle, 3 miles. The Convent, 3 miles. North Foreland Lodge, 3 miles. Stone House, 3 miles. -See also, Ramsgate.

Since the opening of the railroad to

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these twin towns may be said almost to have become one, as a rapid ride of little more than twelve minutes, lands the passenger from the one, safely at the terminus of the other. Once in Ramsgate, the scene, however, is changed, as if by the magic touch of Harlequin's wand; and the quiet of the streets, compared with the crowding busy throng of idlers, jostling each other in the narrow lanes of Margate, was most agreeable to us. Our former knowledge of its excellent cuisine, attracted us naturally to the Albion, and its situation, as naturally induced us to ramble round the Harbour. THE PIER, which is of Portland and Purbeck stone, was commenced in 1750, and cost, during the series of years, which it required for completion, upwards of half a million of money, exercising the skill and ingenuity of numerous celebrated engineers, amongst whom, particular notice must be awarded to the late Mr. Smeaton. The principal head extends nearly 800 feet into the sea, and then forms its first angle. The entire building makes a polygon, of which the Eastern branch measures 2000 feet, and the Western 1600 feet in length, the entrance to the Harbour separating them by a width of 200 feet. There are five angles to each, and both elevations are respec

tively terminated by an octagon 60 feet long. The cross wall separating the inner and outer basins is 1400 feet long, with sluice and flood gates. The advanced Pier at the Eastern head causes the difference in length of 400 feet between the two branches, and renders the harbour one of perfect safety, and which may be entered securely, even during the raging of the most tempestuous weather. Near to the mouth of the harbour on the Western branch, is THE LIGHT-HOUSE. The PIER-HOUSE, and the OBELISK, the latter erected by the loyalty of the inhabitants, at the expense of one thousand pounds, to commemorate the visit of Her Majesty's uncle, King George IV., on his embarkation and return from visiting his German territories, in the autumn of 1825, claimed our notice in these days of sedition and privy conspiracy. But to George IV. the good folks of Ramsgate owe much; for he raised it to the dignity of a Royal Port, and removed the CUSTOM HOUSE from the parent town of Sandwich to it. By means of JACOB'S LADDER, an elegant and substantial stone structure, consisting of ninetytwo steps, we reached the top of the cliff, which rises here to a perpendicular height of more than fifty feet. The houses in THE CRESCENT at this altitude, command an extensive prospect both by land and sea.

King William III., after his accession to the crown of England, encouraged the trade to Russia

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and the East, and Ramsgate embarked largely in it but the cause of its rapid rise was the Harbour of Refuge, commenced immediately after the memorable storm of 1748. As a seabathing place it has been countenanced by royalty, and all the leading members of the family of King George III., including Her Most Gracious Majesty, when Princess Victoria, with her illustrious mother, the Duchess of Kent, her aunt the late Queen Caroline, and the lamented Princess Charlotte of Wales, have visited it in turn.

THE CHURCH OF ST. GEORGE, erected partly at the expense of the town, and partly from a grant from the Church Commissioners, at a cost of upwards of £24,000, is a chaste and elegant structure, in the English style of the fourteenth century, from the designs of the late Mr. Helmsley and Mr. Kendall. The tower is surmounted by an upper story of hexagonal shape, and both for boldness of design, and lightness of appearance, may challenge comparison with any thing of the kind produced during the present century. There are several monuments entitled to notice, particularly that to the memory of Sir William. Curtis, Bart., who died in 1829, and was buried at Wanstead. He was a great patron to the town and port of Ramsgate. There is also a monument erected by the parishioners to Mrs. Henry Dawson, the donor of the clock, placed in the tower of the Church.

THE OLD PARISH CHURCH is about half a mile distant, dedicated to ST. LAWRENCE. It is a venerable pile, and fragments of Saxon work may still be traced in the tower, the greater portion of which is Norman, ornamented externally with ranges of small semicircular arches, springing from plain octagonal pillars. The building consists of a nave, two aisles, and three chancels, the tower rising on four massive columns, between the high chancel and the nave. There are many monuments deserving of mention, particularly those in brass to the families of Manston, dated 1441, Ellington, Thatcher, and Sprakeling. One erected by his late Majesty, when Duke of Clarence, to the memory of RearAdmiral Fox, in 1810; another to the memory of the Lady Augusta Murray, who married the late Duke of Sussex in 1793, but which marriage was set aside by the House of Lords. She died at Ramsgate, March 4th, 1830. There are various others to different members of her Ladyship's family, including one to her father John, fourth Earl of Dunmore. There is a tablet to Lady Conynham, who died in 1814, and a record of the charitable bequest of £1000, made by Mrs. Mary Kemp, in trust, for annual distribution of the interest, to six poor persons above the age of sixty-five, parishioners of St. Lawrence.

Of these monuments that to Nicholas de Manston, who died in 1441, is the oldest in the church.