The earth and its inhabitants (1881) (14597574190)

Identifier: earthitsinhabita481recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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3 Miles. is indebted for its prosperity ; but there remains a small surplus of energy forcarrying on a not inconsiderable coasting trade. Charles Dickens is the mostillustrious amongst the men born here. Hiivant, at the head of Langston Harbour, to the cast of Portsmouth, is asmall market town ; whilst Hay ling, on the flat island of the same name,aspires to the honour of being a watering-place, and engages in oyster-breeding.Fefersfiekl, an old parliamentary borough, close to the Sussex border, is a prettymarket town at the northern foot of the South Downs. The north-eastern point of Hampshire lies within the basin of the Thames.Here are Basingsfokc, Alton, and Aldersliot. The first is the centre of one of
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SUSSEX. 141 the finest wheat and bean growing districts in England, whicli extends northward toSilchester, a village on the boundary of Berkshire. Silchester is interestino- onaccount of the remains of a Roman amphitheatre. Alton, on the Upper Wey, isfamous for its hops. Aldershot, since the establishment of a permanent militarycamp on the downs in its neighbourhood in 1854, has grown from an inconsider-able village into a populous town. The two military colleges of Sandhurst lie tothe north of the camp, within the county of Berkshire. Rycle, opposite Portsmouth Harbour, is the largest town of the Isle of Wight.It is altogether a town of pleasure, surrounded by gardens and villa residences,and the chief landing-place of the crowds of visitors annually attracted by the beau-tiful scenery of the island. Viewport, the chief town, almost in the centre of theisland, at the head of the estuary of the Medina, possesses few features of interest ;but it adjoins the pretty village of Carisbrook