. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . andMarsh—Hills—Anecodote of lost leaves—Foliage in Autumn—Sunsets—Soinersbv. One part, one little part, we dimly the dark medium of lifes feverish dream :Yet dare arraign the whole stupendous plan,If but that little part incongruous seem. Beattie. EFORE entering on the history of theMannions and Dymokes, it may be worthwhile to attempt the not verv difficult taskof removing some of the prevalent mis-conceptions respecting the quarter in which their home issituated. Lincolns
. Scrivelsby, the home of the champions. With some account of the Marmion and Dymoke families. Illustrated . andMarsh—Hills—Anecodote of lost leaves—Foliage in Autumn—Sunsets—Soinersbv. One part, one little part, we dimly the dark medium of lifes feverish dream :Yet dare arraign the whole stupendous plan,If but that little part incongruous seem. Beattie. EFORE entering on the history of theMannions and Dymokes, it may be worthwhile to attempt the not verv difficult taskof removing some of the prevalent mis-conceptions respecting the quarter in which their home issituated. Lincolnshire people who know the real attractionsof the county have for the most part been satisfied withchuckling over the mistaken notions of those who have notenjoyed a similar experience. The present, therefore, seemsto be a favourable opportunity for shedding a little light ona subject which is still involved in some obscuritv. It is sometimes thought, bv those who have no personalacquaintance with the county, that Lincolnshire is flat,uninteresting, and unhealthy. Some people seem to think that. LINCOLNSHIRE. • 13 Fen and Marsh are everywhere predominant, that punts andother flat-bottomed boats are the usual methods of locomotion,that quinine or at least gentian is a necessary commodity inevery household, and that ague claims its victims by in answer to all this, which is only an exaggeratedstatement of what was at one time an almost wide-spreadbelief, it will be enough to sav, even at the risk of beingtwitted with Qui s excuse s accuse, that although Lincolnshireis assuredly not a hilly countv, it is far from being uniformlyflat ; that to the lover of nature and to the antiquarian it isfull of interest, that ague is, happily, a thing of the past, andthat as regards healthiness, the statement of the enthusiasticnative still holds good, that while Lincolnshire takenaltogether is about the healthiest countv in England, Scrivelsbyis undoubtedly the healthie
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