. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. The Barbican, Sandwich. CHAPTER XV. SANDWICH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Coiiits where Jamshydd gloried and drank deep ;And Bahram, that great hunter, the wild Ass Stamps oer his head and cannot break his sleep. Sandwich lies so low that only from neighbouring heights can onegain any idea of its general effect, and neighbouring heights are notmany. It looks best perhaps from Richborough, next best from thetower of St Clements Church. As a general rule, when one mounts thislatter, one first looks to th
. The Cinque Ports; a historical and descriptive record. The Barbican, Sandwich. CHAPTER XV. SANDWICH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Coiiits where Jamshydd gloried and drank deep ;And Bahram, that great hunter, the wild Ass Stamps oer his head and cannot break his sleep. Sandwich lies so low that only from neighbouring heights can onegain any idea of its general effect, and neighbouring heights are notmany. It looks best perhaps from Richborough, next best from thetower of St Clements Church. As a general rule, when one mounts thislatter, one first looks to the south-eastward. One sees the flat marshes,the winding glimmer of the Stour, the purple sea, the unnatuml-lookinii wall of cliffs below the town of Ramsgate. These last throwthe whole picture out of composition ; give it an unfinished look, as ifthe artist had forgotten to fill in a parallelogram of his yellowed can- 350 THE CINQUE PORTS. vas. At other times they have the immovable, stolid impenetrability,seen above the arm of the sea, of a high-sided
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