THE ESPLANADE AND EAST CLIFF.

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buildings along the beach, including Marine Parade and Waterloo Crescent, are shown in the photographs; and we have also Athol Terrace, which, like East Cliff, is under the shadow of the Cliff where the Castle is built, together with an excellent representation of the overhanging strata of chalk. These houses on the sea-front look South by East; and Dr. Parsons, regarding the claims of Dover from a medical point of view, lays great stress on the fact that the town is built so near to the level of the sea as to be only a few feet above high water mark, so that it is fully exposed to the benign influence of the breezes that sweep the surface of the straits; whilst it is flanked and fully protected in the rear by the rising heights of the chalk range. Before the houses to which we have alluded there are a series of capital promenades. At East Cliff the walk is of stone, as is also that in front of Waterloo Crescent; and on the Marine Parade, too, a pleasant "constitutional" is possible, even after a heavy fall of rain, the walk having been covered with asphalte. Perhaps the beach may be preferred; and there we have the bathing machines, the children with their miniature shovels and buckets, the distant music of the band, mingled with that of the waves ; for

"The briny deep

Doth its roaring keep,
The frothy shore along."

Each rippling wave lays at one's feet some tribute of the deep, and tells of wonders indescribable. A very pleasant part of Dover is Victoria Park, a range of handsome residences built in

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The Maison Dieu.

OVER cannot boast of many secular buildings to
which any very great interest is attached, but one
exception is the Maison Dieu Hall, which happens
to be largely identified with the historical associa-
tions of the town itself. Mr. Byng Giraud has aptly
said in his little work-

"A mystery hangs on things of ancient date,
The very doubts, it seems, that o'er them steal
Are tangled meshes from the bonds of fate,
Wrought up with the ideal."

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