Faces and Places

in the vault beneath

the possesses. There i

t of their existence th

may see for himself

ore eighteenpence). It

istinctly goes the sku

of them, thick as shi

enancy of British grou

nine hundred years gon

raid on this convenie

hard fight captured a

in the peculiar forma

skulls originally

whatever they be, it

beach, and after an in

, carried up to the c

t. The church also

n to rebuild it, and b

occurred to a practi

-like in an accessib

and garnished, and

receipts helping to

us, by a strange iron

s left of these heath

p a Christ

ned in Hythe since th

pitable shore. When

m hard up for Hythe,

best havens on the c

he Cinque Ports, an

to furnish, as its q

d five men, and five

s a fair harbour here

occupied itself in

e shingle, with which

off from communica

s if it were

eeling of humiliation

the can watch the pro

ld coal. Where Earl Go

r the little collier n

shore stand the marine

stan. When the collier

thrown out, the capst

e collier is beached,

stand hig

s coal landed at one

e in the water appro

racter of the place. H

harbour in which not

ven fishing boats, fo

greatest water highway

affic. Standing on th

ing fleet of ships sa

t. But, like the Levit

er side. Hythe has not

hands in its pockets

world by sea, and by l

Romney Marshes, Hyt

vour of our earlier En

hen endeavour was m

the Cinque Ports Hyth

vilege of returning r

seems to have occur

the members for W

ce a member had to be

saved, and no one in L

y, in his capacity

some envious Radical s

for him, and we find

als of the House of Co

t is wr

at the Mayor of Hythe

of Commons that Mr. Ju

ed. New writ orde

er known now, but not

nce is worth forming.

the hill crowned by

our and quaintnesses

s the Channel to see.

of which probably doe

t too well stocked, wh

r massive eaves that

om the centre of the r

, before the houses on

lt, when the sea sw

es could scan the ba

connected with the c

ly earning its living

ling, a business in wh

promine

ugh neglected bit of

save in the quarters

ew residences are begi

brown houses roofed

in a bountiful flow

ines of frontage and t

fference to the geom

ghb

ilway Company have l

ld stillness is alread

f the passing year br

its characteristicall

at is called a wateri

de, on which were buil

n came quiet familie

eks they gave to the

ich the mariners (whe

ted with complacency,

g up." For the conveni

on embarked on the pur

e traditions of times

r--so great was the

hing establishment"

ilion at Brighton. T

t is or was when I f

at the end of Septemb

r is far advanced befo

put right. He begins

At Whitsuntide he bri

older, and early in J

pump is one of the e

oaching season. In Ju

same people come every

ivilege of the inhabi

-die. Of late years, s

eded in waking up th

reat future that lies

of drainage and water

of the death-rate. Fr

of Health, it appears

. Of sixty-three peopl

e four thousand, twent

many of them over ei

ulness of Hythe is t

rd, whence it would

ery old people are

t Hythe up to recen

f accommodation for v

s The Families have s

s no use for strangers

ken in. This is slow

ffered, villas have

hotel has been built

d the tower of the ch

en a handsome hotel

fe, it is no wonder t

Longfellow in the "S

t

those cav

shes see

the nort

In Dec

inning of the end. Hav

passengers down from

w dowered with an hote

nce of the hotel bein

prevent the further

. Architecturally it

ts a stately and subs

s into its compositio

th mortar, the whol

s granite. The first p

pectable number of y

dangerous flux of exc

s grown up slowly, as

But it is finished n

ith views from the fr

estone, and at the bac

through the trees of

ommodation is provide

beach, its parade th

its excellent bathing

h rank among waterin

re greater charms e

od. With some knowled

clare that none is se

behind Hythe. Unlike

the country immediat

wooded. Long shady ro

h farms, till they end

orgetting, by the worl

in its loveliness. Th

ay, though by way of c

till there are suffi

ver it turns. From th

h wonder-wide eyes, t

oms in the long grass

nd the poppies blaze

oad. The corn is only

e haymakers are at wor

carries the sw