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A GUIDE TO THE WATERING AND SEA*BATHING PLACES» 
bacon, ora great apple-pye.with thick crust, 
extremely baked. His table cost him not 
much though it was good to eat at. His 
sports supplied all but beef or mutton, ex- 
cept Fridays, when he had the best of salt 
fish, as well as cther fish he could get ; and 
this was the day his neighbours of best qua- 
lity visited him. He never wanted a London 
pudding, and always sung in eating it, ¢ with 
my pert eyes there in a” (my part lies there 
in a, it should be.) He dranka glass or two 
of witie at meals, very often put syrup of gil- 
lvflowers in his sack, and had always a tun- 
glass, without feet, stood by him, holding a 
pint of small beer, which he often stirred 
avith rosemary. He was: well natured but 
soon angry, calling his seryants bastards, and 
euckoldy knaves, in one of which he often 
spoke truth to his own knowledge, and soine- 
times in both, though of the same man. He 
Jived to be an hundred, and never lost his eye- 
sight, but always wrote and read without 
spectacles,and got on horseback without help. 
Uniil past fourscore, he rode to the death of 
the stag as well as any.” 
The account of Shaftsbury, celebrated 
in popish times for its magnificent eccle- 
siastical institutions, particularly . the 
shrine of St. Edward the Martyr, and 
notorious in modern days for the vena- 
lity of its representation, is. both inte- 
resting and well drawn up. Sherborne 
also furnishes a remarkably curious ar- 
ticle, both on account of the architec- 
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tural details, and the insight which. it 
affords of the enormous depredations 
which the courtiers of Elizabeth were 
allowed to commit with impunity, on 
the property of the church. Among 
the monuments of Sherborne church is 
one to the memory of the son and daugh- 
ter of Lord Digby, for whom Pope 
wrote the best of his epitaphs, begin- 
ing > 
«© Go fair example of untainted youth,” &e. 
The island, or rather peninsula, of 
Portland, closes the volume: the ac- 
count of its celebrated stone quarries is 
extracted without alteration from Mr. 
Smeaton’s account of the Eddystone 
lighthouse; and an accurate description 
of the Chesil bank, a ridge of shingle 
seventeen miles in length, is given from 
Dr. Maton’s tour. 
We have derived, upon the whole 
considerable pleasure from the perusal 
of this volume: too large a proportion, 
however, in our opinion, is occupied by 
antiquities, and too little notice has 
been bestowed on the proper topography 
and modern statistics of the counties. 
We would recommend also a greater 
degree of personal inspection,.as essen- 
tially requisite for the permanent value 
of the work. . 
Arr. XXV. England Delineated: or, a Geographical Description of every County in 
England and Wales: qwith a concise Account of its most important Products, natural and 
_ Edition, considerably improved. 8vo. 
THE original plan of Dr. Aikin was 
to condense in a moderate compass the 
most important objects in the natural 
and civil geography of England and 
Wales ; together with such ‘accounts of 
the cultivation, trade, and manufactures 
of the country, as might render the 
work both interesting and instructive to 
young persons in general. As an ele- 
ant epitome of the present state of 
‘ngland in these particulars, the volume 
before us is as yet unrivalled. The pre- 
ceding edition (the 4th) was enriched 
With outline Maps of all the Counties. Fifth 
pp- 400. : 
and corrected principally from the 
county reports published by the Board 
of Agriculture: in the present, the au- 
thor has availed himself of the late enu- 
meration of the inhabitants, and of some 
modern tours, to introduce various par- 
ticulars which, without adding to the 
size, have enriched the work very mate- 
rially. The plates of some of the maps 
begin to be worn, and we would recom- 
mend them to be re-engraved with cor- 
rections, for the next edition. 
Art. XXVI. A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places 3 with a Description 
of the Lakes; and a Sketch of a Tour in Wales; and Itineraries, Illustrated with Maps 
and Views. By the Editor of the Picture of London. 18mo. pp. 434. — 
IN the composition of this work, says 
‘the editor, “an increditable number of 
publications haye been consulted, and in 
no instance has ghe last edition of the 
various local guides been neglected. 
The editor has been repeatedly induced 
to visit most of the places described, and 
made his observatiosis on the spot ;” 
