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THE PERAMBULATOR, No. VIII. 

 THE PLYMOUTH LEAT. 



Every place has its inconveniences of one kind or 

 another, and many places have their advantages ; 

 though there are some habitations so unaccountably 

 select, as to possess every kind of annoyance to sight, 

 hearing, smell and taste, — damp to the feeling and 

 unhealthy to the constitution, — without any counter- 

 vaihng recommendation, to excuse the builder for 

 such misplacement of his labour. 



Our town has its inconveniences ; and the position 

 of some of its new buildings seems to be chosen upon 

 the principle just laid down: the excuse of the 

 builder being, however, that there is every disadvan- 

 tage of position ; so he has concentrated thereon 

 every architectural imperfection ; and if two negatives 

 will make an affirmative, there being choice of nega- 

 tives of all kinds, it is no wonder that such houses 

 quickly find tenants. 



But the dear old town has its advantages too ; 

 many and great. A climate of peculiar mildness ; 

 a fertile neighbourhood, teeming with fruits and 

 flowers ; a turf of exquisite greenness ; extent 

 and variety of landscape, almost unexampled ; the 

 glorious sea rolling in its blue billows, unobstructed, 

 from the Atlantic, and giving us the easiest and 

 earliest communication with all parts of the globe, 

 (the North Pole excepted) and a multiplicity of other 

 things which should be described by the poet, and 

 some of which are already enshrined in the pages of 

 Carrington. 



There are also advantages suited to the proser ; 

 (the yarn spinning writer, a well known character in 

 the literature of the present, and of most former ages) 

 and to the inspiration of one of these the present 

 paper is due. Cold, soft water, in profuse abundance, 

 is amongst the main recommendations of Plymouth. 

 Whenever we travel, if, on our journey, we call for a 

 basin of water to wash the hands ; we presently find 



