Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . ered, and ftill renders, herfelf vifible, onfome occafions, in the Abbey of Streonefhall, or Whitby, wherefhe long refided. At a particular time of the year, namely, inthe fummer months, at ten or eleven in the forenoon, the fun-beams fall in the infide of the northern part of the choir; andit is then that the fpe(Slators, who ftand on the weft fide ofWhitby churchyard, fo as juft to fee the moft northerly partof the abbey, paft the north end of Whitby church, imaginethat they perceive, in one of the higheft windows, the refem-blance of
Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . ered, and ftill renders, herfelf vifible, onfome occafions, in the Abbey of Streonefhall, or Whitby, wherefhe long refided. At a particular time of the year, namely, inthe fummer months, at ten or eleven in the forenoon, the fun-beams fall in the infide of the northern part of the choir; andit is then that the fpe(Slators, who ftand on the weft fide ofWhitby churchyard, fo as juft to fee the moft northerly partof the abbey, paft the north end of Whitby church, imaginethat they perceive, in one of the higheft windows, the refem-blance of a woman arrayed in a fhroud. Though we are certainthat this is only a refle6lion caufed by the fplendour of thefunbeams, yet fame reports it, and it is conftantly believedamong the vulgar, to be an appearance of Lady Hilda in herfhroud, or, rather, in a glorified ftate ; before which, I makeno doubt, the Papifts, even in thefe our days, offer up theirprayers with as much zeal and devotion as before any otherimage of their glorified faint, Netley LEASURE tourifts crofling from Southamp-ton to Cowes in the Ifle of Wight, haveoften admired the woods of Netley on theirhanging fhore, with here and there a fummitof broken wall peering through the nobletrees. The fituation on the banks ofSouthampton Water, about three milesfrom that town, and near a part of the New Foreft, is parti-cularly charming, and has often drawn the foot of the lover ofnature or of art to a nearer infpedlion of it. The beauty ofthe place is by no means diminifhed by this is a foreft air about it ftill; the trees are wonderfullylofty and fine, and many of them have fprung up in the interiorof the once fair building, whilft mafTes of luxuriant ivy clamberthe lofty walls, and depend in rich prodigality from their crum-bling fummits, adding a fuller grace to the fcene. The vifitor,feated on a fallen ftone, ftill feels a foreft filence around him ;and the neighbourhood of the Southampton
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