uselessly lavished, has opened a nook, a little to the eastward of the New Harbour, capable of receiving a number of sloops and other small craft.
WINCHELSEA CASTLE.
When over the bridge, strike into the Marsh, where, at an equal distance between Rye and Winchelsea, but not far from the sea, stands Winchelsea or Camber Castle. This is one of those Castles built by King Henry VIII. for the protection of the coast. It is thought by some to have been built on, or with the ruins of a more ancient fabric, and is said to have cost twenty-three thousand pounds. It has long been dismantled, and is now in a very ruinous state ; but the souterreins, which are extensive, are tolerably complete. It belongs, at present, to Sir William Ashburnham, proprietor of the estate on which it is built.
RYE.
Proceed on to Rye, so named from the -
