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dwelling with a garden full of flowering shrubs. 

 The whole spot has a most cheerful and uncommon 

 character. The little church, which is of a pretty 

 form, stands on a broken knoll open to a beautiful 

 pasture, with groups of elms carelessly disposed 

 about it; and it is backed by the high hill of 

 Dunnose, whose lower part is covered with 

 thickets and groves hanging down its steep sides. 

 From among these in one part a range of rocks 

 starts out; the northern face of the same great 

 stratum to which the Undercliff owes its exist- 

 ence and its beauty. The route from Shanklin 

 church, by the road which winds through the 

 open groves up the flank of Dunnose is eminently 

 beautiful, affording, as we ascend, the most lovely 

 views. The village with its groves forms a charm- 

 ing first distance — the bay of Sandown with the 

 Culver Cliffs present a noble winding shore — and 

 beyond the low land of Sandown, in the direction 

 of Brading Haven, a part of the anchorage of 

 Portsmouth with its shipping is visible. From 

 the top of the ascent, the elevation of the ground 

 is so much greater than the chalk hills of Yaver- 

 land, that the sea is visible over them ; and the 

 distant blue heights of Hampshire and Sussex 

 form an uninterrupted line, till to the eastward 

 they are blended with the horizon of the sea ; 



