Des vues pittoresques, sur la rivière Medway, à partir de la Nore à proximité de sa source dans le Sussex : avec des observations sur les bâtiments publics et d'autres œuvres d'art dans son voisinage . akingcharcoal à partir de bois. Pour former le coke, achaldron eighteenhours de charbons nécessite environ la gravure. Nous allons maintenant aborder l'ancien pont, qui ofTwyford est construit de flone hasmore utiUty, et d'ornement que dans son con-flru6lion. Les arches sont gothiques, avec flrong ftrong ( 152 ) buttrefles raifed thepiers againft angulaire, et sont comptabilisés à la partie supérieure de la foi-murs. Le village voisin de Twyford, fromwhi

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Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood . akingcharcoal from wood. To form the coke, achaldron of coals requires about eighteenhours burning. We now approach the ancient bridge ofTwyford, which is built of flone, and hasmore of utiUty than ornament in its con-flru6lion. The arches are Gothic, with flrong ( 152 ) ftrong angular buttrefles raifed againft thepiers, and are carried to the upper part ofthe fide-walls. The adjoining village of Twyford, fromwhich the bridge derives its name, was writ-ten, in the book of Doomfday, Tuiferde, anappellation that it obtained from the twoFords which formerly exiiled over the two.ftreams of the Medway, which branch offfrom this place. From the bridge, a fmall flream of theMedway runs to Yalding, about a milediftance, but is not navigable. At Yaldingbridge it is joined by the Hunton river, which derives its fources from various fpringsat Great Chart, Ulcomb, Eafl: Sutton, andCranbrook, in this county. From Twyford bridge, the river bears itscourfe eaflward, through a fertile country, whofe J. 5^ .I ( 153 ) whofe meadows are famed for producing thelargeft, and beft breed of cattle, in thiscounty. The firlt pi6turefque obje6l thatprefcnts itfelf deferving notice is Brantbridge, in the paiiQi of Eafl Peckham. The retired and romantic fituation of thisfpot is fo pecuHarly ilriking, as to render i, timpoffible for the eye of obfervation to pafsit unnoticed. It i^ one of thofe fimple andinterefting fcenes, from the fludy of whichthe Dutch and Flemifh artifls, as well as thejudicious of our own country, have efta-bliflied a lafting fame. Nor is this fpot theonly one in this vicinity to be admired forits pi6lurefque beauties j the various meaa-derings and receifes of the river affordingperpetual fcenes of that fimplicity in nature, which produces the elegant in landfcape. The many rivulets which crofe .

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