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whose dazzling sheen has saved many a ship from an untimely end
on the treacherous Goodwin, which is also in sight-the grave of
many a comely vessel and gallant crew. Yesterday, may be, the
Channel, now so calm and beautiful in the brightness of the sun,
was lashed into violence; for the gales that sometimes sweep down
the Straits are awful in their grandeur, but terrible in their
effects.

"She does no work by halves, yon raving ocean;
Ingulfing those she strangles, her wild womb
Affords the mariners whom she hath dealt on,
Their death at once, and sepulchre."

But now, how different!

"Tis a grand sight, after rough weather, to watch the Channel studded with sails, a fleet of two or three hundred vessels probably leaving the friendly shelter of the Downs for their different destinations.

Now look down below, over the frowning battlements of the Castle, upon the town of Dover itself, compact enough immediately underneath the observer, but more and more straggling as its houses, modestly quaint and picturesque, most of them, in the entire absence of any architectural beauties and effects whatever,

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are scattered up the valley. If the sight is obtained from the Western Heights, we have the original of our illustration, which furnishes an excellent view of a portion of Snargate Street in the foreground, the inner and outer harbours beyond, with the north and south piers at the extreme left, the Lord Warden Hotel, and the yet uncompleted Admiralty Pier in the distance, jutting out into the sea in the direction of the French coast.

We may be pardoned for again quoting Rogers :-

"And now appear, as on a phosphor sea,

Numberless barques;

Some sailing up, some down, and some at anchor,

Lading, unlading, at that small-port-town,

A quay-like scene, glittering and full of life,
And doubled by reflection."

The Harbour.

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TEPS were first taken to convert the Harbour from a wretched and dirty pond, to which the shipping was compelled to resort, into its present admirably large and commodious condition, in 1846, when the Wellington Bridge was constructed; and subsequently Palmerston Bridge was placed where the old Union Bridge had formerly stood. These two bridges now divide the Pent from the outer and inner harbours respectively, and are so constructed as to open for the passage of vessels, and also to retain the necessary quantity of water in the Pent, which was altered into its existing state of completeness and convenience in 1852. It now contains a magnificent crane and patent slipway, the latter for the repair of vessels and steamers damaged by