LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS,

BY RUSSELL SEDGFIELD.

THE ROMAN PHAROS, DOVER CASTLE...

TOWN AND CASTLE, FROM THE WESTERN HEIGHTS

FIENNES TOWER, DOVER CASTLE

CASTLE STREET AND VICTORIA PARK

THE "PENT," AND THE BARRACKS ON THE HEIGHTS

THE PIER AND HARBOUR FROM THE HEIGHTS

DOVER BAY, FROM THE EASTERN JETTY

THE ESPLANADE

ATHOL TERRACE

ST. MARY'S CHURCH

SHAKSPERE'S CLIFF AND SOUTH-EASTERN VIADUCT

ST. RADIGUND'S ABBEY

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Dover.

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OVER! There is a charming quaintness in the very name which suggests a thousand pleasant associations to all whose happy lot it has been to visit a place that has been famous from those Roman days when it was known as "Dubris," and those times when, peopled by a Norman race, it was called "Dovere." Its high white cliffs, towering many feet above the level of the sea, and high enough to be often, on a clear day, within the ken of our French neighbours, twenty-two miles away, have withstood for ages the never-ceasing wash of the waves

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which divide our country from the Continent; and their chalky
heights, glistening in the sun, or gloomily severe in their propor-
tions when deprived of Sol's rays, have been gazed upon with
strange feelings of joy by thousands of returning wanderers, whose
first sight of the country they have left so long has been that of
the rocks which, strong in their natural strength, seem to defy
both age, decay, and the fiercest onslaughts of either Father Time
or of the elements which aid the stern Old Man in his work of
destruction:-

But the old Dover Cliffs yet exist in all the grandeur of their
imposing proportions, and, a rocky Gog and Magog, seem to guard
the town which nestles between them, standing unchanged until
there comes what Shakspere so expressively describes as-

While, however, these ancient heights have remained comparatively unaltered by the lapse of time, it has been very different with the town of Dover itself the name, though, forming an instance of the prevalence of a title for thousands of years with very slight alteration. It is a modification of the old British Dour,