scarcely to be paralleled in the kingdom. The British Channel, from Beachy Head to the South Foreland, presents an unbounded prospect, save where Boulogne hills uplift their dusky fades. Just under the Foreland lies Dover, whose pier-heads may be seen on a clear day. But it ought here to be observed, that the evening, about an hour or two before sunset, is the proper time for enjoying the views from this spot, in their greatest beauty. At this time, the lengthened sunbeams just gild the mountains' brow, and point where the village steeple rises with majestic grandeur above the deep embosomed wood. Every house and cottage now rears its head amidst the surrounding verdure.
Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around
"Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires,
"And glittering towns, and " ocean wide," till all
"The stretching landscape into smoke decays!"— Thomson.
The towns of Winchelsea, Rye, Lydd, New Romney, Tenterden, and villages in numerable, may be seen from this spot on -
