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one whereon its portrait will go down to posterity. 

 And thou, future reader, who, in the year 2500, de- 

 cypherest with toil this antiquated type, and porest 

 over the glossary for these obsolete words ; despise 

 not the engraving ; but remember that it was exe- 

 cuted in the infancy of the arts, in the year 1835 ; 

 when we had no method of travelling faster than 20 

 miles an hour on rail roads; no artificial hght 

 brighter than the oxy-hydrogen jet on lime ; when 

 the magnetic spark was only just discovered ; and 

 before the nature of comets and meteorolites had 

 been ascertained. If the rude cuts of om^ dark ages 

 convey to your instructed eyes, no idea of resem- 

 blance, we have provided for the difficulty, in our 

 case, by printing the name beneath. 



Although of seemingly small importance, the 

 Bear's Head marks the limits of the jurisdiction of 

 the borough seawards ; and is alluded to, under the 

 Municipal Corporation bill, in the division of the 

 said borough into wards. 



We must, however, pull across to Queen Anne's 

 Battery ; which formerly threatened, (for it could 

 do little more) the entrance of Sutton Pool, from the 

 eastern bank. 



By whomsoever this was erected, we do not 

 believe it was by the royal lady of seldom disturbed 

 memory, whose name it bears. Although no ways 

 learned in fortress antiquities, it seems to us unlikely 

 to have been raised after the Citadel. The engineers 

 of the days of Marlborough, would hardly have 

 constructed so useless and needless an affair; nor 

 would it have been allowed to fall so soon into ruins, 

 if of their execution other and older forts there are, 

 at Devil's Point, and in Firestone Bay, being two of 

 the four castles emblazoned on the town arms, and 

 constituting some of its primitive defences. It 

 appears by the original charter of the borough, 18. 

 Henry VI., 1439 ; that " the town tything," &c. 

 "aforesaid, have in former times, frequently, and in 

 "great measure, for want of inclosure or walling of 



