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it chance to be full, there are several miniature 
lodgings where a person may not only make shift 
for a night, but be made comfortable for a longer 
period, with a primitive and loving welcome. 
Below the inn the road gets steeper and steeper, 
and is at last obliged to condescend to a zigzag, to 
get down at all. In one place a house over-arches 
the street; at another, a steep flight of steps leads to 
a cottage, which is perched like some sea-bird’s nest 
on a ledge of rock just large enough for it to stand 
on; while to reach a third you have to dive under 
a water-shute at the risk of a wetting. 
The quay is as rough as the street, being paved 
with “ popple stones” like the town, but the view 
js most remarkable. Some of the houses are built 
upon the beach, the sea washing their walls; they 
too have quaint balconies, from which the fishing- 
nets hang in graceful festoons, as they do also along 
the quay. 
Near Freshwater, a small cataract to the east of 
the town, Asplenium marinum is to be found, but 
stunted and difficult to remove, owing to the hard¬ 
ness of the rock. 
There being no possibility of any wheeled vehicle 
descending Clovelly street, a road has been cut 
down the cliff, t but it is little less steep than the 
street. At the top of “ Quay Hill,” as this precipice 
