Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-18


ITs FEArunEe-THE CHARMS OIL THE ENGLISH
LANDSCAPE.
Correspondence of the Commercial.
BRIouToN, ENGLAND, June /, 1875.
You will be glad to hear that l arrived here
safely on Friday last, and am enjoying the privi-
leges OF the scenery, and the meetings which
were the especial object OF my coming. The
town itself is an object of interest and, to an
American, of curiosity. 1t appears to be sit-
uated in an amphitheatre Of hills, consisting OF
the "Chalk - formation of this part of England
-" the Downs "-and facing on the south the
English Channel with the coast OF France at
some 10 miles distance. There Ii no harpor ana
no vessels of any size can trade here but the
sea has been 80 quiet since came, that small
boats are lying at anchor or plying about IN
safety immediately along the beach. Two piers
tut out into the sea for distance of one or two
hundred yards but they appear to be OF little
use except as promenades. The whole sea front
is protected by high wall against the face OF
the cliff, and along the street or parade
thus formed, from 20 to 90 feet above the
beach, is u range OF hotels and boarding houses
overlooking tho sea, with the advantage which
Atlantic City 30 greatly lacks, OF the element OF
height to command the prospect. The view
from the water, which have not yet seen, must
be very fine the escarpment being IN Iacs the
same with that of Dover, the I" White Cl1fs OF
Old England" of which we have heard 30 often.
Behind the city clothes the sides of the amplli-
theatre Of hills with teeming population, who
are all either those who are attracted to the
place for the sake of health and fashion, or
those who minister to their wants. The whole
town seems to consist of shops, hotels, and
boarding houses. In the centre OF the town is
the famous "Pavion" built by KING George
~ for purposes OF dissipation, II not OF de-
bsuchery, III the last century, but now the
property of the Corporation. Adjoining it
are the Dome, an immense theatre, and other
| buildings ; and the whole are surrounded by
| lovely gardens. thoroughly kept, and with those
magnificent old trees and that lovely green's
| ward which are the pride of our English land
scape. An American is struck at once and al
| ways with the thorough keeping OF these Eng
| lsh roads, gardens, squares and public buiid-
| ings They seem to consider-and are they not
correct in this THAT public property and that
which is intended for the public eye should have
| enough laid out upon ii to preserve it from de-
cay, and to make 1t a pleasure in the use. In
| all this they have the immense advantage OF a
climate which seems like b nursing g-inotl,er to
1 the vegetation, which, clothes the roadsides and
\ the old buildings with a greenness which makes
| an American think he never knew what green
meant before. AS the traveller for London
/ leaves Liverpool, he enters long tunnel, upon
| emerging from which he finds that he has left
the dingy city behind him, and is plunged at
| once into an ocean of green the like OF which he
| has never seen before. And this continues al
most without interruption until he enters Lon-
| don. 1t is green everywhere green always ;
/ you are immersed in green and such green 1t
| reminds me of that beautiful soft and tender
| light which have seen spreading over the land
| scape visible from the upper part of our city On
summer evening, when, after q rain. the sun
suddenly forces his way through the clouds and
spreads an indescribable glow oyer the lower
lands bringing out every tree and every object,
clothed and transfgured into living gold and
green Such is the tender greenness of the
English agricultural landscape. am told that
the droughts of August do at times change this
beauty into the brown and sere condition our
mown fields often show in July and August but
at present the climate, though there has been
little rain since landed, seems to be the very
bean ideal OF gardener. w. \. Ill.