. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. ?lii/i)!!.! irit \\. o a a w > 2; js < a DOSI Whitby 65 of the two streets, says Mr. Besant in his life of thegreat circumnavigator, courts nearly as narrow asthe Yarmouth passages run down to the waters edge,or to houses built overhanging the water. Some ofthese are old taverns; they have, built outside, broadwooden galleries, or verandas, with green railings,and steps to the water, where the captains or mates ofthe colliers could sit with a pipe and a cool tankard,and gossip away between dinner and supper, lookingout to sea the
. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. ?lii/i)!!.! irit \\. o a a w > 2; js < a DOSI Whitby 65 of the two streets, says Mr. Besant in his life of thegreat circumnavigator, courts nearly as narrow asthe Yarmouth passages run down to the waters edge,or to houses built overhanging the water. Some ofthese are old taverns; they have, built outside, broadwooden galleries, or verandas, with green railings,and steps to the water, where the captains or mates ofthe colliers could sit with a pipe and a cool tankard,and gossip away between dinner and supper, lookingout to sea the while between the cliffs. ... At theRaffled Anchor, for instance, even a sluggish imagina-tion can easily discern James Cook himself, in hisrough sea-dress and tarred hands, sitting among hisfriends and shipmates—himself already having gainedthe quarter-deck. The sojourners conception of Whitby will growclearer if he go westward, beyond the confluence ofthe Ellerdale Beck, and the shipbuilding yards, toLarpool, looking whence he will see the whole of theinner harbour, and
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