Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-13

Hampstead town, and instantly Cnmprc-
bend that the region and lis attractions
to l.OndOners must be considered In three
distinct and delicious aspccts-its all
ynntuges for free aud utnlrammeed re-
creation; its positive inspiration to paint
CT aud poet, aud excellent uses for the
naturalist and from those blcndings
and environments Of mellow age. ten
derest aspect of all. which furnish the
ider and dreamer u host of winsome
memories. First Of all Is Il wild and rug
ged heath aud not n park. Dark, wind
bound fir trees hang against sandy
ridges. where for centuries they have
clutehed the virgin soil There are high
banks Of red sand pierced by rabbit bur
rows. Ancient hedges and bitches cut
each other at sharp angles. Narrow
bournes or rayines. their followed floors
OF clear and shining sand, pillow the
hills In fanciful burrows. providing tiny
crags of furze, mounds of verdurc and
pleasant ways and shade, as II one walk
ed In wcll-worn ancient wnter-courses.
Altogether IL is mass of hills scoop
ed into innumerahle pits aud cavities.
threaded with tiny ponds. banked every.
where with hardy gorse and niazes OF
heather, wild flowers aud grass, splatch-
ed with knots of noble trees, inteIsected
By countless foot-ways, wild and rag
ged as when the Romans were here.
and all seemingly held together by lhter,
llcing roadways with rugged sides OF
rock and sund and pines and turAe.
Around 1t is shining thread OF lovely
hamlets, stately halls aud wins0me cot
tngps. MI gnbled, ivied. old, Within i
ON gardened hills and blossoming hol-
lows, or ut It's slumherous edges. where
old structures like old folk seem to love
to doze in sun and shade, are scores OF
those quaint and ancient inns, still the
most charming heritage Of the "nerf1e
England" of long ago; and the whole re-
sion X cxhilerating FROM It's free, hne
unrouthuess and the ce1scirss breezes
sweeping from 0dOrous Northern wales
ever inviting to their lhe-giving DALI
ance the city millions below. and behilng
back from these fields Of pleasure Tue
nestiIential breath Of griiny London town,
IL Il any wonder that the hundred OF
thousands Of London folk who come
bore give them selves 10 unrcstrnineu en-
iorment or that this transition from
xiv woes and walls produces such
ioyous delrlum TO young ana oiu thal
YOU will hear on Hampstead heath more
ringing. almost .eeslatic hughter' thah
any other place In all the wordf
Seated beneath the flagstaff when
marks the high, 81 elevation of the Heath
mo can readily understand how me
region roundabout has been the best be-
inVcd of all the mar launts OF lonu1n
nat,,raiists, and why. from the days OF
Gnitesborough and Constable II has tnrn-
ished lid landscape artists ennyas WIN
many OF its notable thelnes anu serh's,
i, Ia mo one place In England where its
greatest city and vast cxpanse OF typl-
cal English landscape can be c0nteinplnt-
ri .lmost ut the same glance, Nlde
amen 10 the wind and sun stretches vale
offer vale to the southeast. the north
aud the west. Your eircling view eS-
tends into seven English shircs. far ~
the north eau be traced the spirc OF
idn,nslnn Sfeeplc. IN Norfhnmptonshlre
The Kuocholt Becches in Kent, the hills
and downs Of Surrey. the l4aindnn llills
~ Fssex, IL, turrets Of royal windsor
IN Rerks, aud q church on the far Dor
iers Of Oxfordshire. are ~ full view.
Down below Hampstead. enfogged by
the exhnlation OF hundreds OF thousands
Of chimneys, in the distance Tvs niynan
,cafs like a plain 81 broken and seething
Lawn. lies the metropolis of the world
the dome Of gray old ". Pauls Ike
neak of fuselcss steel In inensurcless
inclnerntinC mass What mind can
grasp the magnitude Of human history.
Of human accomplishment ana oil hu-
man despair within the single circle OF
yisionl
many al Hampstead iieaih. lcs. even II
alnne. You can still sit here by tue iiaE.
SfoH with no one 10 converse with and
,.nninre up a grcwsome or gOodly com
many. II was NJ Hampstead Heath.
M al Hounslow Heath. that the Jack |
sons. The Duyulls and the Turpins Of the |
sixteenth, seventeenth aud eighteenth |
ccntrries cut purses, and throats u |
need, be 10 gct them. and luade merry |
~ lords at It's inns some Of which are
hare 10 minister alike to the saint and |
sinner now. Over against the gardens |
a. wildwood. az the side VI the Heath |
I'm nlld. still stands the ancient Glib |
i,et Film. Upon is huge old arms, many |
es.,titrire Old. were hung u chrin-, when |
er,teht. these merry knights u the road |
The same locality. as you stroll towards
road. will remind you as you |
lnoL "A The little orifl window u Wild /
VOID house. Of the saddest year Of Lord |
l,hatham's life. the year when the Eng |
ish nations destinice were trembling Ia |
M balance and Chatham shut up here |
No. a monk 1T penance struggled and /
n-ar,-l 10 be physically new aid whole
Il vas here that Addison aud his friends
,sssed their evenings Ia the gardens Of /
M ola Bel and Bush tavern. George
l,e.vens. Shakespcare's noted commenta-
~ lived and died al the ancient Upper
III ~ inn. DR.. johnson wrcts bis !