OUTHEND and SHEERNESS DAILY, by the
OREAD or SEA SWALLOW, leaving lower side of LONDON
BRIDGE at 9.30 and 11.0, Blackwall 10.0 and 11.30.

RAVESEND and ROSHERVILLE GARDENS

GDAILY by last STEAMERS from lower side of LONDON

BRIDGE at 9.30, 10.30 (Saloon), 11.0, 12.0, and 3.0.

WTOOL WISH GARDENS.

THE

ISLE OF WIGHT

VISITOR'S BOOK;

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF ITS WATERING PLACES,

WITH

A MINUTE DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL TOURS

IN THE ISLAND.

ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

This place

A happy, rural seat of various views:

Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balms:
Others, whose fruit, burnished with golden rind,

Hung amiable.

Betwixt them lawns or level downs, and flocks

Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd;

Or palmy hillock, in the flowery lap

Of some irriguous valley, spread her store.

Another side, umbrageous grots and caves
Of cold recess, o'er which the mantling vine
Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps
Luxuriant: meanwhile murmuring waters fall
Down the slope hills.

MILTON.

SIXTH EDITION.

Portsea :

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL HORSEY, JUN.

QUEEN-STREET:

SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE ISLAND, AND WHITTAKER and co., ave MARIA LANE, London.

N

2 4K 1965

PREFACE.

WHEN a Publication has passed through several Editions, it is presumptive evidence of the estimation in which it is held by the literary part of the community. It seems, therefore, needless to write a Preface to a Sixth Edition; and we should waive this formal piece of authorship, were it not that it furnishes a suitable means of expressing the high gratification we have felt in the favour which has been so spontaneously shewn to this work; and at the same time to intimate, that considerable additions have been made to it, from the increasing variations which are taking place in the Island every rolling year.

The Beauties of the Island are delineated in such a way, as to conduct the Visitor, most easily, to its romantic scenery, and to point out the spots in which its most elegant seats, villas, and cottages are placed.

The Civil and Ecclesiastical History of the Island is associated with some of the most important records of time. This is presented in a compressed form; and occasionally interspersed with a description of the different places with which it is connected.

The Island abounds with beauties; almost every spot is fairy land; but the Visitor who travels it without a guide, is very likely to waste much of his time and lose many of its enchanting

scenes.

The principal object of this Work is, to assist Visitors through the Island: should it in any measure facilitate their excursions, and add to the pleasure of their journies, the compiler's object in writing it will be answered.