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from au extensive collection of rare and old maps and 

 charts, delineating on sea and land the line of travel of 

 the early discoverers of America. I soon found the 

 matter vaster even than I had anticipated; in fact, 

 requiring much more time than is at my disposal. 

 Trusting to your forgiveness, I have departed from my 

 old and beaten track and shall this evening, with your 

 permission, place at your disposal, a few excerpts from 

 a Diary of Travel, I kept during a two month absence 

 from home in July and August, 1881. To many here 

 present, what I have to say, I ween, can have no 

 novelty. It may possibly serve to refresh the memory 

 of those sightseers, who have preceeded me and prepare 

 the minds of those who may come after me. 



Let us then first view King George IV's Elysium. 



BRIGHTON. 



As a fashionable sea-bathing resort, where the upper 

 tendom of London disport themselves in sickness as 

 well as in health. I saw no spot more patronised, 

 more gorgeously and effectually equipped for pleasure 

 and health, than the lovely town of Brighton on the 

 Southern coast of England. 



Brighton, with a population of 103,281 souls, and an 

 annual influx of over 50,000 tourists and visitors, was 

 an obscure fishing- village down to 1753, in the county 

 of Sussex. 'Tis now famous through all England. 

 Brighton's original name was Brighthelmston, from 

 Brighthelm, an Anglo-Saxon Bishop, who is reputed to 

 have founded it in the 10th century, and tun, a town. 

 Local histories tell us that the Eomans had a settlement 

 here, as proved by the numerous coins and other anti- 

 quities of the Koman period which have been found 

 from time to time. The lord of the soil in the 11th 

 century was the great Earl Godwin, the father of the 

 last Anglo-Saxon King, Harold, who, as you know, lost 

 his Kingdom and his life at the battle of Hastings 

 (14th Oct., 1066.) 



