370 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Huguenot associations ; or we might recall the days when for a 
while the town assumed the character of a fashionable watering- 
place — when the Longroom was built, and the grounds about 
it laid out in gardens, walks, and bowling-greens, overlooking 
not only the Sound, but what was then the quiet tree-girdled inlet 
of Millbay ; when the assemblies of the neighbourhood were held 
there, and " society," drawn thither by these attractions, made the 
township its resort. But these are matters of comparatively 
modern experience, and we have been dealing with the " restitu- 
tion of decayed intelligence concerning antiquity." 
