The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-03

thought. So did Philip the Second, the bigot expect to do the same when he sent out his 'anvinol4Ae armada" We all know how the armada went to grief -an ignoble fate-for that is familiar to every American and English school boy. A few evenings since saw on the walls of the Royal academy in Pic cadilly a spirited painting; 1t represent ed Napoleon and his officers galloping over the sands at Boulogne, straining their eyes intently towards the coast of England. It Is marvellous painting. In 1903 Napoleon was meditating the invasion of England, but the invasion never came off.
 In 1915 Napoleon was bagged at Wa terloo and packed away to Saint Helena and Europe had lasting peace. East bourne has population of thirty-five thousand people; 1t is clean and very pretty English town with plenty of aged elms and shady streets; most of these lead to the esplanade and here it is that the broad views of the sea are obtained, and to sit and walk and re- cline here is an inspiration born of the ocean itself,
 The coast of France is sixty miles off or three hours with one of the quick steamers, and many of the fisher craft | in the offing with reed tanned sails gleaming in the sunlight came from the French coast, and the complexion of I life in Eastbourne is of a strong Conti- mental type Geologists tell us that in the primeval period, probably long be- | q 4l. q Ia; | the sheet of water which we now call | the English channel did not exist; in it's place was broad level plain far away | to France, and at that period of time ] the river Thames ran into the Rhine and their comminged waters fell into | the Arctic sea.
 1 The German ocean or North Sea was also a wide expanse of plain at that time and the birds in their migratory | flight north and south flew over, this
 wide plain, How strange is the fact
 that to this very day the descendants of 1 those same birds do still in their won drous flight to India and Africa follow the original lines of flight as their pre- l historic predecessors occupied, for in- | stead of diverging off the coast of Hol- Hand and following the coast line down | to Calais, where the passage across the l channel is narrowest, they continue to lfy in an unswerving, direct path of | travel right across the widest part of | the German ocean, and thus those tknowing little creatures wing their sure
 and certain flight into as well as out of England.
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 and they follow the example, and their
 descendants will do the same as long as
 the globe shall endure. All along the south coast of England are tall, rugged chalk cliffs, and these were wrenched
 or broken off doubtless when the great plain connecting England and France became depressed and the Atlantic ocean rushed in with it's turbulent, rest less pillows, causing great water way to exist where the dry plain had for merly been. These chalk cliffs are as
 white as snow when the, sun glances on them, and to a person who views them from the deck of a steamer eight or ten
 miles off the coast they gleam like
 great white snow banks. So they ap-
 peared to me two years ago, when I
 passed here on my passage from New
 York to Hamburg.
 When the Roman galIeys ploughed
 their eager course through these same
 waters bound to "Vectis," (for such the
 Romans called that lovely island which
 the English have since named the "Isle l of Wight'9 these whitened cliffs of chalk, at whose bases the surges beat
 themselves into foam dust, gleamed as
 mysteriously bright then as now, and
 when the old mariners, of whom we
 read in Homer, reported the existence of an island in the north hidden midst fog banks and rain and mists (which doubtless was EnglanD, they to- 7 caught the majesty of these samt ], blanched cliffs which have given to DO etry the name of Albion or the mysteri ous land of the White Hills. To tht , east of us is Hastings, an historic spot : and we must sail over there to view tht } place where the great Norman conques
 occurred; where William the Conquerol landed his forces and beat the Britton: back even on their own soil; then, too , we will take the boat for Brighton which George Fourth made famous as { ] watering place. It was at Brighto! 7 that the Greatest Gentleman of Eng 5 land," as Thackeray once sarcasticall, Z styled that absolute monarch, conduct ed himself so shamefully that his niece ] Victoria of England, has never consent l ed to visit that lovely place, through utter contempt and disgust for her roy } al uncle The Brightonians would ac tually leap out of their wits if Queer ) Victoria would only condescend to pa, :; Brighton visit. I find I must clos 9 my letter. I am writing on the sea | shore and the confusion is too great oyer all the din comes the noise of tn : ever shifting shingle on the beach; a t the foaming waves retreat the nois Q made by the rolling pebbles is confu l sing, sounding not unlike the fin q joie" which we heard last week iron 3 the Grenadier Guards as they manoeu ; vred on Hyde Park VIATOR.