The sun rises over the hills, and

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"Full many a glorious morning have we seen Flatter these mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy." There is a little inn at the top of the Dyke Hill -(a windy situation: when there is no wind elsewhere in the county, they say you may find plenty there; and we have heard it whistle down those chimneys o'nights famously)-where the stranger may be accommodated with a bed on the sofa in the little parlour; and there is some convenience in that, for if he is bent on preventing the sun rising," he may find it necessary-at least we have -to make his escape out of the window.. The Dyke is much frequented by "gipsy parties," of which Sussex folk are very fond. In our younger days we have been with more than one here, and it was a pleasant excuse to stay rather late, that we might in our way home hear the nightingales sing in a wood not many miles off; and where else do nightingales sing as they do in Sussex?-But we must leave this place; and we shall have a delightful walk over the downs to Shoreham.

Old Shoreham is a poor place. Its inhabitants are nearly all fishermen, and they only possess a few cabins. It was once of some consequence, but the rise of New Shoreham, and the diversion of the mouth of the river by the accumulation of a sandbank, have caused its utter decay. The church, which is the mother church of the county, is an interesting structure. It is often called Saxon, but is no doubt Anglo-Norman. It was conferred by the De Braose mentioned above as the owner of

Bramber castle, on the Abbey of Florance at Salmur, soon after the Conquest; but there is no evidence that it was erected by him; nor, we believe, is the date of its erection known. It consists of a nave, chancel, transept, and tower. The tower is in the centre of the church rising from the intersection of the cross. It is supported on four large arches in the inside of the church; they are of great beauty-circular, and richly carved with the various Norman ornaments. There is a fine circular doorway in the south transept. The building has been suffered to go to decay, but is now being thoroughly repaired. As far as the repairs have proceeded, they appear to be judiciously performed; the restored portions seeming to be taken from neighbouring churches of a nearly contemporary period. The restoration of the edifice is being accomplished by subscriptions, the inhabitants being too poor to accomplish it unaided: a box is placed inside the church, into which the visitor may drop his contribution. An engraving of Old Shoreham church is given in Horsfield's History of Sussex,' but it is very inaccurate: there are only two windows on the south side, instead of three, and they are represented as pointed, instead of round; the doorway is also much too large, and altogether the character of the edifice is missed. The river is here, as we said above, of considerable width, especially at high tides; it is crossed by a wooden bridge five hundred feet long, and containing twenty-three arches. It is, however, rather awkwardly narrow, being only twelve feet wide; it is of no beauty. Since the erection of the bridge at New Shoreham the traffic over it is very much lessened.

The Adur probably emptied itself into the sea between Old and New Shoreham, but a sand-bank has been formed and gradually extended for some three or four miles along the shore, so that the river now runs parallel to the sea for that distance, and is only separated from it by a narrow strip of sand. As the encroachments of the sand lessened the depth of the river and caused the coast-line to recede from the old town, the houses would of necessity be built where more adapted to the convenience of traffic, and thus New Shoreham rose into being and consequence as the other decayed. But New Shoreham must have been a place of importance at a very early date. The church, which was collegiate, was of large size; and though not so large as in its original state--the greater part of the nave having been destroyed-it is even now one of the finest churches in Sussex. It is of

the later Norman period: Dallaway says, there is every reason to suppose that it was erected in the reign of John, by the William de Braose mentioned in our account of Bramber Castle: it is remarkable as exhibiting a union of Norman with early pointed arches. Rickman, in his Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture,' says, that "New Shoreham church is an excellent one for practical study, particularly when considered in conjunction and contrast with its neighbours Steyning and Old Shoreham." Of the importance of New Shoreham harbour at an early period it may be considered a sufficient proof, that when in the reign of Edward III. the various ports were required to contribute ships of war properly armed, fitted, and manned, Shoreham was called upon to send twenty-six ships, while London only

sent twenty-five. It is not a place of much consequence now: the accumulation of sand has carried the Adur some miles beyond New Shoreham, whose trade would have been quite destroyed thereby, if the evil had not been partly remedied by the formation of the present harbour. A branch from the Brighton Railway has been carried to Shoreham, and promises to be of much service to the town. An elegant suspension-bridge has been thrown across the Adur here; it is from the designs of Mr. Clark, the engineer of that at Hammersmith, which it much resembles, but is ornamented with some large lions, the crest of the Duke of Norfolk, at whose expense the bridge was constructed. There are a few old houses in the town, but none to call for notice either as regards appearance or historic interest. It was at Shoreham that Charles II. embarked when he escaped from England after the battle of Worcester.

Thus, then, we have seen pretty nearly all the Adur has to show us; and now we will bid it good speed, and turn, as we arranged, towards the Arun. There are two ways of reaching that river-along the sea-side, or across by the villages a little inland; we shall follow either as inclination may lead us, or there may be anything worth looking at to call us aside. The sea along this part of the coast does not put on its most attractive phase. There are no cliffs, and the shore is flat; so that at low-tide there is a long, dull, unbroken stretch of sand between you and the sea, extending in some places for a quarter of a mile; and instead of the broad majestic sweep of mighty waves, lines of feeble ripples break at your feet. Still the sea is the sea, and it is worth a twenty miles' journey