12 EAMBLES BOUND FOLKESTONE. 



II. SUGAK-LOAF HILL AND HOLY WELL. 



As the visitor, approaching Folkestone by rail, 

 passes over the Viaduct, the most prominent object 

 on the landward side is undoubtedly " Sugar-Loaf 

 Hill," projecting from the long escarpment as if 

 thrusting itself on his notice. Let us on some quiet 

 summer evening pay it a visit. 



We will start from the foot of Grace Hill, going up 

 the opposite slope and ascending the "Bull-dog 

 Steps." Only a few years ago, and this road was a 

 narrow undrained lane affording a passage past the 

 Mill, with a spring of beautiful clear cold water at 

 the foot of a flight of fragmentary and dislocated 

 steps a spring noted for its hygienic virtues cer- 

 tainly for the last two hundred years, for do not the 

 town records give evidence of the care with which it 

 was protected ? But this, with many other interest- 

 ing evidences of antiquity, has lately made way for 

 what I suppose we must call improvements, but we 

 get them at the expense of the picturesque, and in 

 the eye of the antiquarian and the naturalist such 

 improvements are not always regarded as worth the 

 sacrifice. But it must ever be so it would seem ; 

 the age is one of utilitarianism, and apparently that 

 is incompatible with the picturesque. 



At the top of the present flight of steps we were 

 formerly able to get a good view of the Kailway 

 Viaduct, a light airy structure by Brunei, the middle 



