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Title: A retrospect of forty years, 1825-1865
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902 Butler, Harriet Allen, d. 1914, ed
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government 1815-1861 New York (State) -- Politics and government 1775-1865
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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We crossed from S. Hampton over to Lyming-ton a town situated on the sea coast and from tfience toYarmouth (Isle of Wight). Nothing remarkable there.Thence to New Port which is the chief town on the island.Not far from here was Carisbrooke Castle, the placewhere the unfortunate Charles I was confined before his ex-ecution. It is now in ruins, but the window where Charlesattempted to escape is still shown. The well is 300 feetdeep and is the same which was there when the Castlewas built. Water is drawn up by means of a donkey.We went from thence to Black Gang Chine which isa wild and romantic spot. The meaning of the nameBlack Gang we could not discover, the Chine is a vastchasm in the rocks. On the shore it extends quite farback and has a very forbidding appearance, it was onthis coast that the ship Clarendon was wrecked. Wespent the night at the Sand Rock Hotel not far fromthe Chine, which is quite a fashionable resort, it is some-thing I should think like Rockaway near New York. 96
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A RETROSPECT OF FORTY YEARS The next day we completed our journey and formed al-most the complete circuit of the island. At Brading wesaw the house where Leigh Richmond formerly resided,and the church (the oldest in the Kingdom) where heformerly preached, also in the church yard the tomb ofthe Young Cottager. On Friday afternoon we camefrom the isle of Wight and crossed to Portsmouth in-tending to take the Havre Packet to France but foundthat none would sail until Monday so after seeing whatwe could of this place which is only remarkable as anaval station we engaged places in the coach to Brightonand on Saturday morning started for that place, unfor-tunately it rained all the time we were coming whichrendered our situation on the top of the coach very un-pleasant. They construct their coaches here very differ-ently from what you do, having only seats for 4 inside andfor 8 or 12 outside, the outside is much the pleasanteston a clear day but when it rains you can easily imagine itscomfo

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