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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: On the distant shores, the first object that meets the eye to the westward is the turret of Luttrell's Folly, or Eaglehurst, now the property of the Earl of (Ja van. Calshot Castle, (another erection of Henry VIII. and about at the same time with that of West Cowes) appears at the entrance of Southampton waters, Hamble Church presents itself in the distance to the left of Calshot, and Sir Joseph Yorke's villa, at about an equal distance to the right. The low cliffs opposite the Parade, are connected with Hell Haven, at a short distance from which is the entrance to Tichfield. Stokes Bay with the new erections at Anglesea Ville lie farther to the East. The naval hospital at Hazlar, with some of the spires and masts in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth, may usually be seen, while the range of hills behind presents no uninteresting back ground. On one of these hills the monument of the gallant Nelson may be seen in fine weather, and will long remain a monument of his country's gratitude. "England expects every man to do his duty," but will also allow him to expect that his grateful countrymen will do liim honor for his exertions. Spithead, and the Motherbank now appear to the right, and the eye at last rests once more on England's garden, and on one of its most favoured nooks, the northern extremity of the Eastern Cowes. Its green copses reaching to the very water's edge, some erections of the late Lord Henry Seymour, with the Villas of Messrs. Shedden, and Sir George Thomas, and theHotel at East Cowes, now occupy the eye till it glances on some storehouses, which in the lower department close the distant view. No spectator will however overlook the apparently antiquated though really modern erection of John Nash, Esq. at the Eastern Cowes. It gives a kind of character to the whole sce...