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From Historical Hastings
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if you wish for more " parade," what can be finer than the " Carlisle ? " - a worthy tassel at the eastern end of the two miles' string : and yet, in a moment, if you are sea-sick, you may pop round the corner, and steady your nerves by the sight of a real, safe, two-sided street. Lefthand : library-one shilling and sixpence per week-seal-skin jackets up to thirty guineas, Trinity Church, and the Countess of Waldegrave's drinking-fountain. Right-hand : jewellery, tea-pots, the sweetest French poplins, and Jersey pears.

One shilling from the sea end of Robertson Street to the Land's End of Hastings . We won't be offended that the girls on horseback (another " feature ") bestow not a glance upon us of the " golden mean. " Their attention is evidently centaured (as Bell's Life has it) upon their own little difficulties. Look there, now ! that is really a pretty town viewa convergence of three or four streets, handsome monument in the centre, and a bold hill, topped by a ruined castle, crowning the whole. The monument is the thousand-and-first tribute that English towns have raised to the memory of "Albert the Good." Half the credit of my picture I give to the noble-hearted proprietor of No. 2, George Street. " Would you kindly permit an exceedingly humble individual, blackened below suspicion by his degrading profession, and an utter stranger to you, to carry his vile machinery into your drawing-room, and work from the window ? "- " Certainly, sir. Here is the key of my housego where you like ! " This is surely a terrible cut for the fellow (shall I give his address ?-no, I wont) who, upon a similar application-but no matter-Bah !

Passing Wellington Square, and never minding the old castle today, here we are at my title-page - the Pelham Arcade, Bazaar, Baths, Crescent, right under the Castle Cliff - snug winter quarters for invalids . Those atmospheric dragons, Boreas and Euroclydon, who feed upon