The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-30
IT IS AN ANCIENT TOWN
EASTBoURNE IS 4 DELTGHTFUL SPOT IN THE SUMMER.

Indebted to the Duke of Devonshire for Its
 Good Drainage and Pure Water Supply
 It Was Along That Coast Where Tenny-
 son Caught the Inspiration for His Grand
 Lines.
 Eastbourne, Sussex, Aug. IS, 1895.
 Eastbourne Is an ancient town, and antiauarians think in very early times the Romans had an important settle ment here, for the plough constantly turns up Roman remains.
 There is prevailing tradition that here was built the Roman city of "An- dereida." The local beauties of East q bourne are various and attractive, the prospects arc fine, the trees are more luxuriant than usual on the sea coast, the walks and rides are excellent, and best of all, the air is salubrious and the sea bathing most deligAful. AL z though Eastbourne is delightful spot { in summer it has attractions in winter to draw many to it's genial locality. ( It is delightful both in summer and winter. George A. Sala once wrote of Eastbourne as the Empress of water ing places" Punch calls it " the Bourne to which all travellers return" and 7 George Mcdonald said "there is a charm in the aspect of Eastbourne and it's surroundings which fascinates the senses" and I think he was about right
 The place owes it's pre-eninent salu- brity to it's position, it's soil, drainage and water. It is indebted to the Duke of Devonshire for it's good drainage and pure water supply. The Duke,
 who owns no less than eight fine resi- dences in different parts of England, N owns a very large portion of the land upon which Eastbourne is built, and he has expended upon it's improvement Hover three hundred and fifty thousand K pounds or nearly two millions of dol W lars. There are many pretty streets Slhere with grand old elnls whose %branches meet overhead, and the sun %3light as it beats through makes a pie ture like the impressionst painters Representations of bright sunny hooks and restful retreats; there are whole streets here filled with beautiful villas # (detached or semi-detached) with lawn V tennis grounds and pretty gardens and S then the lawns carpeted with verdant M turf and trees and walls covered with ~ clinging, green, luxuriant ivy. Flaw thorne in one of his English sketches
 said "there is no country in the world < where there is such an exhibition of
 lovely lawns and delightful ivy" Ev-
 cry old tree trunk and every ruined N wall, has it's lovely mantle Of ivy, just < as if nature herself extended her arms to protect and beautlfy the surround
 ings All the house yards are pro- tected from view by fine stone walls
 covered with ivy, while line of green NJ thick hedge extends ten feet above the
 walls for you must know that MT. and
 Mrs. John Bull love to occupy their M gardens and lawns of a. summer eve
 ming in perfect quiet, and cannot bear v the thought of passers-by peering through the palings to see what is go x ing on there. Although the interior of \ Eastbourne is most cleanly and attrac- z tive, more so than at any place I know
 of, I constantly find myself drawn to- N wards the sea beach, gazing out upon # the wide expanse of sea which to my I# own mind suggests so much of interest
 and deep thought. Ruskin says, "ot x all inorganic substances acting in theil M own proper nature and without assis.
 tance or combination water is the most
 wonderful. To all minds it is the best X emblem of unwearied, unconquerable
 power; the wild, various, fantastic
 tameless unity of the sea" love tc gaze at the sea- it's ozone invigorates me, it's mystery awes me, it's mighty
 pillows form crested like Neptune's \ steeds tenify me, while it's calm sur
 face as often seen on the early Sabbath x morn actually mirrors the glory of Goo # it's own Creator, as viewed in the blue # vault above.
 It was Byron who wrote
 "There is society where none witness x By the deep sea with music in it's roar M Who possibly can be lonely as he stud # ies the ever changing hues of the ses
 waves, watching the rise and fall of tht X mighty ocean caused by that subtle ' agent which we call the tide.
 This afternoon a magnificent fleet O M German ironclads under command O E Prince Heinrich of Prussia, passed hert
 on their way from Cowes to Kiel Thest
 fine ships were about one hundred ant N fifty fathoms apart and watched then Y as they came into sight when they
 rounded Beachez Head, till like a mas
 of little sea gulls wings they disap
 peared below the eastern rim of tn & ocean. At the same time down chan
 mel there came two four-masted ship
 from London, heavy deep-sea ships the! E were with double top-galant yards K and when they found sea room of M Beachez Head to lay their course, the! k set all sails and To! what a picture the!
 presented, a real picture which n' F Turner could paint; they looked lil1 K two great white clouds, and when the. # got before the wind and got slant, of E toward the southwest, they set thei { royals, moonsails, skysails and ring
 tails and so disappeared; they wer E doubtless bound to China or Australi; t and many months will pass before the! @ return and make the light on the roya f4 sovereign lightship, as they forge rap