SCARBRO'. 



"balnea nunc cole; mens hilaris, moderata diet a." 



Scarbro' — gay town of Yorkshire's eastern 

 confines, I do admire thy site, thy walks, thy 

 sands, and thy environs : — for I never come to pass 

 a month amongst them, without enjoying all the 

 blessings of health and peace, and balmy ocean 

 breezes, — thine own inheritance. 



Happily indeed for thee, no beds of coal lurk 

 underneath thy quiet surface ; for wherever there is 

 coal in great abundance, it is sure to invite long 

 chimneys, from whose sable mouths volumes of 

 murky smoke rush out to poison Flora's choicest 

 produce. At its fell touch, her plants turn pale 

 and wither. Her trees themselves, diseased and 

 blackened by unwholesome vapours, perish at last : 

 and when we cast our eyes around us, we see too 

 clearly, that these unsightly works of brick and 

 stone, are tolling vegetation's parting knell, and 

 giving to the neighbouring fields, that melancholy 



