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occurred in English history, and visitors need never spend 

 idle moments there if activity is preferred to ease, for intel- 

 ligent enquiry will reveal no end of places of easy access, 

 worth visiting, of which Canterbury alone deserves more 

 than one pilgrimage, and if rurally inclined, the Kentish 

 woods, lanes, orchards and hop grounds are always beautiful. 



The impression that a first glimpse of 



A first \Vhitstable leaves on the mind is, perhaps, 



Wh't t bl * na * ^ a b ustnn & thriving, hardworking 



fishing town, thoroughly and legitimately 



absorbed in its own well-being, and not wholly ignorant of 





The Whitstable Slopes. 



its importance. The smallness of the older houses near the 

 shore is also a feature, and some of the weather-boarded 

 cottages rather remind one of little Dutch residences in 

 Holland, though the former are not treated to quite so 



