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the first place amongst the most renowned of our 

 many British watering- resorts, will naturally bear 

 in mind, that visitors are the source from which 

 her present prosperity has flowed ; and from which 

 her future greatness must be drawn. In fact, 

 there is no other source. An abundance of visitors 

 constitutes her sheet anchor. Visitors in fine, to 

 use a commercial phrase, are her staple commodity. 

 Deprive her of them, and then, even all the power 

 of steam itself, applied to any expected point of 

 profit, will be of small avail. The ship will break 

 from her safe and sheltered moorings; and the 

 tide of her departing greatness, will " ebb much 

 faster, than it flowed before." 



Wherefore, it behoves you, intellectual gentlemen 

 of Scarbro 5 , to unfold your balmy stores of health 

 and sea-side recreations, to all who come in quest 

 of them. Decry not this man's faith, nor that 

 man's calling ; and let your motto be, Health and 

 Content to all our Visitors. 



There still remains another drawback, — but let 

 me touch it gently. It is a partial, not a common 

 wrong. Our wounded flock of Albion's ancient 

 fold, begs at your liberal hands a drop or two of 

 anodyne, to soothe its irritated feelings. No 

 sooner has the fifth of cold Novembers dawn, 

 announced the approach of day, than noisy and 



