Volume 1

A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France, made in the autumn of l789 / By Samuel Ireland...the second edition, with additions; and an entire new set of copper-plates in aqua-tinta, from drawings made on the spot.

  • Ireland, Samuel, -1800.
Date:
[1796]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France, made in the autumn of l789 / By Samuel Ireland...the second edition, with additions; and an entire new set of copper-plates in aqua-tinta, from drawings made on the spot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fight, between the Saxons and the Danes, at the mouth of the Stour, as early as the year 884, and this place is alfo of great antiquity, having been eredled into a borough in the twelfth of Edward the Second. Some re- mains of an ancient fortification are to be traced, without the town gate, running to- wards the Beacon-Hill Field ^ in the midfi; of which is a fmall artificial hill (probably a tumulus), and on which there once flood a chapel: from that fpot ilFues a clear fpring,^ which, forming a current, runs from the cliff to the fea, and wafhes down the clay which it is faid to petrify: for this fa6l I do not vouch. On this fliore are found what are called copperas or gold flones from their colour.—Tranfparent pebbles of various hues, as well as amber, are likewife found here. The natural productions of the place have been a fource of much curious refearch and