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for many years was an active and valued member of the 

 Dorset Field Club. By the kindness of Mrs. Merrick Head 

 the views are now reproduced in memory of her late husband 

 for the benefit of our members, many of whom were his 

 personal friends while he lived at Pennsylvania Castle ; 

 and the pleasant task of writing some descriptive letter- 

 press to accompany the plates has been entrusted to me. 

 A few lines will suffice for most of the pictures ; but some 

 of them demand a longer notice. The photographs are 

 the work of Mr. E. H. Seward, of Weymouth. 



Quite a number of Upham's other paintings of Portland 

 and of Weymouth and the neighbourhood were reproduced 

 by Alken, Bluck, and others. The only earlier series of 

 Portland views known to me are the smaller set in ink by 

 the Swiss artist, S. H. Grimm, dated 1790 (they are in the 

 British Museum), and a cruder and still smaller set (anony- 

 mous), dated 1785 ; but extant single views of about this 

 date suggest that other sets may have been issued. 



It should be mentioned that the following notes have 

 had the advantage of being read through by two writers 

 on Portland our member, Mrs. King Warry, and Mr. Robert 

 Pearce and although they do not agree with everything 

 here written there is not very much that they would wish 

 to alter. 



I. General View of Weymouth and Portland. 



This view of Weymouth as it was at the beginning of 

 the 19th century, with the Isle of Portland, and several 

 frigates in the Roads in attendance on George III. who 

 was going on an " aquatic excursion," was sketched from 

 a field near the old Cavalry Barracks, about a mile from 

 the town of Weymouth. 



Portland, though now a peninsula, is always called an 

 island, which not improbably it once was. The local idea 

 quaintly expressed is worth recording : " The island has 



