;o A KENTISH PARISH 



reach it embraces a natural garden, crowded with the 

 peaceful signs of a happy and prosperous population. 

 Through the green of the woods in the middle distance 

 rise the white cowls of the hop-kilns ; the wreaths and 

 threads of light-grey smoke are curling up from the 

 hamlets and scattered farmhouses. Here and there, 

 beneath a somewhat thicker cloud, you mark the roofs 

 and chimneys of a considerable village. On the highest 

 ground, far away to the left, are the glistening villas of 

 a fashionable watering-place ; and everywhere you dis- 

 tinguish more or less distinctly the spires or towers of 

 the parish churches. 



