. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. steps, winding rounda stone column under ground. At the bottom of thesesteps was a door-way, the stone frame and the iron locks andbolts of which weie in perfect preservation. Diggingtowards the Sea from the bottom of the steps, and oppo^iteto the doorway, the workmen discovered a vault, containingstone coflSns, in which were the remains of persons of morethan ordinary stature. The bodies were in excellent preser-vation, and the teeth in the jaws were sound, and as perfectas though the
. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. steps, winding rounda stone column under ground. At the bottom of thesesteps was a door-way, the stone frame and the iron locks andbolts of which weie in perfect preservation. Diggingtowards the Sea from the bottom of the steps, and oppo^iteto the doorway, the workmen discovered a vault, containingstone coflSns, in which were the remains of persons of morethan ordinary stature. The bodies were in excellent preser-vation, and the teeth in the jaws were sound, and as perfectas though they had been but just interred, although theymust have lain there several centuries. A well was alsodiscovered, at the bottom of which some human bodies weremouldering. Near the foundation, the remains of a draw-bi-idge were discovered, whence it seems that the presentcastle was erected upon the ruins of a more ancient one. Near this castle is the spot where tlie battle was foughtbetween Harold and William the Norman, in which theformer lost his life, and the latter gained a crown,c c ^ 294 WINTER. &^,. VN WINTER. * This is eldest of the seasons : he Moves not like Spring- with gradual steps, nor growsFrom bud to beauty, but with all his snows Comes down at once in hoar antiquity. Now comes the season when the humble want,And know the misery of their wretched scant;Go ye, and seek their homes, who have the ease the sorrows of their trying hour. Thus do, and enjoy the bright reward which conscienceand the secret pleasure of well-doing will infallibly the hoary Winter hath bound fast the ground, andthe wretchedness of the inclement season visiteth the poor WINTER. 295 and humble, and the churly frost and the bitter stormsprevent the labour of the industrious man, and deprive hisdependant family of their accustomed pittance;—then beye, with whom the ability dwells, still found in the habi-tations of poverty, dispensing a portion of your plentifulsubstanc
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