and culture, make up the prospect inland, whilst to the south-west may be seen the white cliffs of the Isle of Wight rising from the sea, like the legend of the birth of the Grecian goddess, the impersonation of all beauty.

West Tarring (a mile and a half west) has a fine church with a tall spire; the nave, with its clerestory and aisles, is Early English; the tower and chancel Perpendicular. It contains an ancient oak-chest. There is a venerable building in the village, with a hall of the fifteenth century, and an oblong solar of two stories, projecting at right angles; it is of the thirteenth century, and tradition connects the room and the fig-trees in the adjoining garden with the primate à Becket and St. Richard of Chichester. A bird peculiar to this district annually visits the fig-orchards of Tarring and Sompting. At Salvington, in this parish, is shown the cottage called Lacies, which was the birth-place of John Selden, Dec. 16, 1584. At Dunington there is a ruined chapel; and near Castle Goring (Admiral Sir G. Pechell, Bart.) is Clapham church, Transitional-Norman, with two brasses to J. Shelley, 1550; J. Shelley, 1592. The high road from Worthing to Arundel passes through or near Offington, Dunington, Patching, Angmering Park (Duke of Norfolk), Poling (with its wild-fowl decoy), and Leominster. The railway has two intermediate stations— Goring (thirteen miles and three quarters) and Angmering (sixteen miles). From Goring may be visited the churches of Goring and East Ferring. At Angmering is the Transitional-Norman church of St. Margaret. It contains a stone pulpit by Teulon.

The next stations are Littlehampton (eighteen and a half miles) and Arundel (twenty miles). The telescope bridge over the Arun is the first of the kind ever constructed: it is composed of two moveable parts; the larger portion, 144 feet long, is formed of two strong frames, 12 feet high, made of timber weighing ninety tons, and moves on eighteen friction-wheels, each having a diameter of 6 feet.

The botany of the neighbourhood includes-at Worthing: Mentha sylvestris. At Lancing: Sphærococcus coronifolius,

chara nidifica. At Littlehampton: Diranon subulatum, trifolium scabrum. Arundel: Hypnum palustre, Mentha rotundifolia, M. piperita, Neckera crispa, rubia peregina, scirpus carrinatus, dipsacus pilosus, eucalypta streptocarpa, epilobrium angustifolium, lonicera xylosteum, verbascum lychnitis, sclerochloa procumbens, helleborus viridis. And at Amberley: Enanthe peucidanifolia, ranunculus lingua, carex dioica, and limosella aquatica.

The statistics of these neighbouring watering-places are as follow:

Acres. Inhab. Uninh. Bldg. Inhab. Uninh. Bldg.

derived its name, according to the legend, from Ham, the assassin who was slain by Arviragus, at the time when Gwyder defeated Claudius. The town stands on the east bank of the Arun, and is composed of a street running north and south, half a mile in length: it is eight miles from Worthing, and four miles from Arundel. To the

east of the town, within a furlong of the sea, is Beach Terrace, which, with other lodging-houses, forms the watering-place which first became popular in 1790. The then Earl of Berkeley was a resident here for a considerable time. In 1628, the course of the Arun was altered by a cut to drain the levels. In 1734 an Act of Parliament was obtained to erect piers, formed of piles, from which extends dicker-work, and to enlarge the harbour; the commissioners' powers were increased by another Act in 1797. On the right bank of the Adur, within half a mile of the sea, are several shipwrights' yards; and brigs of 150 tons can lie at Arundel Bridge, while lighters and small craft proceed up the river to Newbridge and Billinghurst, and so into the Medway and the Thames. The river here, 370 feet broad, is crossed by a floating bridge, in plan similar to those of Portsmouth, Torpoint, and Dartmouth, but of smaller size, and worked by two men. Queen Matilda landed here 1139; and Philip Earl of Arundel was arrested on the shore, as he was making his escape to the continent. The church of St. Mary (W. G. Holmes, V.), rebuilt 1826, 100 feet long, has some ancient glass. In 1644, a suit of tapestry was taken out of a prize (a Dunkirk vessel) off this place: it represented the story of Conans, the British prince, and his Cornish bride, Ursula, who, when proceeding on a mission to Britanny, was wrecked, and, with her female attendant, Undecimilla, slain : they afterwards were buried at Cologne. The story is the subject of one of Claude Lorraine's finest pictures. This tapestry was set up in the Star Chamber at Westminster. From Littlehampton to Arundel extends a rich valley of marsh lands, the groups of villages and church towers forming a pretty rural landscape, and the shady lanes a pleasant walk. The trout of Amberley and grey mullet of Arundel (the latter persecuted by the osprey) are as famous as the Selsea cockle, Chichester lobster, Pulborough eel, and Rye herring.

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bears the name of Hirondelle, the war-horse of Bevis of Southampton, and the swallow is a favourite ornament in its church, and the badge of the borough. The river Arun, it is perhaps needless to say, gave rise to the name. Collins mentions the river in the "Ode to Pity," and alludes to his brother Wykehamist and poet :—

"Wild Arun too has heard thy strains,
And Echo, 'midst thy native plains,

Been soothed by Pity's lute;

There first the wren thy myrtles shed
On gentlest Otway's infant head;
To him thy cell was shown."

And Charlotte Smith thus bids it adieu :

"Farewell Aruna, on whose varied shore
My early vows were paid at Nature's shrine.
Sighing I resign

Thy solitary beauties, and no more

Or on thy rocks or in thy woods recline,

Or on the heath, by moonlight lingering, pore
On air-drawn phantoms."

The church of St. Nicholas (G. A. F. Hart, V.) cruciform, of flint and stone, 190 feet in length, is of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The low central tower of two stories is 26 feet square, and covered with a short leaden spire; the nave of six bays measures 82 ft. 6 in. by 50 ft. 6 inches, and is ceiled with Irish oak; the clerestory is composed of quatrefoiled circles. At the south-west angle of the tower there is a fine stone pulpit. The west aisle of the nave was St. Christopher's Chantry. It has two ancient frescoes, representing the seven deadly sins and seven corporal acts of mercy. The font is octagonal. The north transept (formerly Salmon's Chantry) is now used as a parochial chancel; for the architectural chancel is the choir of a College

of the Holy Trinity, founded here by Robert Earl of Arundel, in 1387. The ancient cell of St. Martin's Abbey at Séez was merged in this new foundation. The chapel has a north aisle, 54 ft. by 20 ft., which served as the Lady Chapel: it measures 82 ft. 6 in. by 28 ft., and is 35 ft. 6 in. in height. The roof was taken down in 1782. The east window is of seven lights, Perpendicular. The altar, with its ancient Purbeck slab, has been undisturbed. On the north side, a low wall with three pointed arches parts the Arundel chapel from St. Mary's.

The monuments are most grand and beautiful, even though time and fanaticism have worn away their gilding, dimmed their ancient colours, and injured the richly-carved stone and marbles. They are those of―I. Thomas, 11th Earl of Arundel, K.B., Lord Treasurer (died 1415), and his wife Beatrix, daughter of John King of Portugal; with effigies of alabaster, on a tomb shewing nine statues of priests in copes singing, with service-books in their hands, on either side. The Earl's sister and coheiress married John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. II. John, 12th Earl, and Eleanor Berkeley. This Earl gallantly defended Southampton against the French, and served in the English fleet; he died 1422-an incised slab and altar-tomb in the centre of Lady Chapel. III. John, 13th Earl, K.G., the Duke of Tourraine, who died at Beauvais, 1434, from the effect of a culverin wound received at the siege of Gerberoy Castle :-north side centre arch of choir; effigy and cadaver of Sussex marble, with three foliated arches. IV. William, 15th Earl, K.G., Lord Warden (died 1487), and his wife, Joan Neville, sister of the "king-maker," and daughter of Richard Earl of Salisbury:-a superb canopy, and four pillars; the effigies, of Sussex marble, have been removed to the tomb of John, 12th Earl. V. Thomas, 16th Earl, K.G. who married Lady Margaret Wydville, and died 1524 : -chantry of Sussex marble, with a heavy canopy and four richly-carved wreathed pillars of Petworth marble, standing on the north side of the choir. The Earl was the patron of Caxton. VI. William, 17th Earl, who died 1543. Above this tomb is a tablet to Henry, 18th Earl, and