Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-05
AlcXar.ssrin ttI s-39.

| AIcXaTsarim IN 1890.
The ioil>Hing vas pu1li5hed in the G,2attt
| several years previous to tue lste war:
A stranger here, J. ranged the sroots about,
| TO view Inhabitants Wha. they 70 about.
Some r0ar, a0mG fieh. they rCv1 from street tC
street,
And, generally. in their dress, arr nest.
Some stores and shops make here pompna:
show,
O:hcrs ate not 80 tu rs you may koow.
lhe people here 10 strangers kind,
AS. by their conversation you msy fad.
Visitors here ere us'd n0lcy well,
As som7 ty their experience can tc
Iho buildings here arc generally nrat;
iho streets we'll paved. which makes walking
complete.
I've seen ;hcir houses where they preach aad
pray,
l,ut thc congregation is small on atormy day.
For modes OF faith they need 90. here to fight,
rs all may &C: as they thick best or right.
at dil2rcIt "orships still are numbers there,
who seek ior heaven by Vstu0us sc,s and
rraycr.
I've seen their pIec, Of education, 100.
here ways OF virtue 10 their you.h they show,
Aud teach The youaS ideas how to shoot,
Hoping thereafter they will briog good fruit
Their iorelg0 trade has here been soro distress d.
By osldlcu3 foes " hom they once carts,'d:.
Their ships wCro taken sud their clrgots too;
Which teach that mau to mar is seldom true.
lis mop q ia:3 growing o0u0iry will bo
Ot all that's otxious totally free.
KING AETHUR'S CASTLE. Tho eounly Of
Cornwall is 30 rion and varied 10 its soonery,
and possesses 80 many poiats Of interest that it
we'll repay7 q visit 10 tho summer mouths;
whether the tourist be ecooeist botaniSt,
arc n oIoeis! Or simply 'oI! for holiday"
and, wishing TO made the N ost Of it, he ought
not to be disappointed OF all its or cient monu.
m'otE, not ono batter repays a vis: than King
Arthu:'s Castle, 10 tho parish Of Tiutagel, or
Duodaei, as ii is written by old cirouiclcrs. 1t
is supposed stronghold Of that wonderful Al.
thur Whose sayings and dOines have been handed
down TO u5 through ages and ages now past. and
who has at las been INN 1rtali2!d 10 verse bJ
the laur;a,e. Here between ''tho laundering
shores Of Bul aGd Boss" at wild Duudagil
by tho Carulia Sea, the intaut Arthur vas by
tcamtor wave Cas-, Up aud left when it 70
treated mgb, II not dry, on the sandy beach
- lSdSt 81 says tCuuys SUI lQ D!S l1SHS OF tho
k'rg, that Suoh person is Ar,hu. ever cz
stcd, except 10 the misds Of tho poc;s and Legend
moDgcrs, We s;e a!ijwsd to doubt, and that
ne, |! cXisag, yer resided ut this Castle oi
Tintaecl, which bears lis name Is p7oplnmsiical
though OF tnc very great antiquity Of the fortress
there nla be no doubti but the idoa is one to
take The isncy o"nl OF q pro5siC person, who
stsnus on Tho castle height, now csrpetst with
turf End bright with the lovely blossoms Of the
sea pink. and locks from IL over tho w!do ex-
panso f restes: sea and listens to the roar of its
waves as they dash against the rocks beneath. The
whole scene is so grand-so fitted TO the history
Of Tic man for whom E1cslibur was forged be-.
meath tbs .Wsres by fairy fingers. The outer
works cf Tho csstle sre built on perpendicular
cliffs or: tio mainland Lu: the principal fortress
is on %lld hoadland projecting into the sea and
sepsra.2d by wido ch9sm from tho mainland
The Two parts are said TO have boon Connected st
ono time by drawbridga. hui no trace of such
an erection r2w remains. lndG:d, little Of the
castle iissT is in exis!ence-a few cru.ubling
walls pierced with loophole; for the discharge OF
arrows, two Or three bold aschways and hrok-
| en- II ght OF stops hare and there being ali that
| remain cfthis sgod fortress