ifland, leaving a proper proportion of water to 

 occupy the middle fpace. 



Leap is one of the port-towns of the foreft : 

 and as it lies oppofite to Cowes, it is the 

 common place of embarkation, in thefe parts, 

 to the ifland. 



In this place, it is fuppofed, the Dauphin, 

 after his fruitlefs expedition to England, 

 embarked privately, on the death of John, 

 for France j burning the country behind him, 

 as he fled. His embarkation from fo obfcure 

 a part, fhews in a ftrong light, how much his 

 hopes were humbled. 



To this little port alfo, the unfortunate 

 Charles was brought from Tichfield-houfe, in 

 his way to Carifbroke-caftle, through the ill- 

 ftarred guidance of Amburnham. Here he was 

 feated in an open boat ; and from thefe fhores 

 bad a laft farewell to all his hopes in England. 



The village of Leap confifts only of half a 

 dozen houfes : and flickers perhaps as many 

 fifhing boats. All the coaft indeed from St. 

 Helen's to the Needles, and around the ifland 

 is in peaceable times, a fcene of fifhing. In the 

 whiting-feafon efpecially, fleets of twenty or 

 thirty boats are often feen lying on the banks j 

 or ftanding a little out at fea. 



Fowling 



