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Letters From T. Dunckerley, Esq.
piece , called the Grand Duke ' s piece ; it is of brass , very curiously wrought ; with the aims of Tuscany on it : the weight of the ball is 421 b . At Leghorn we received orders from the admiral to proceed immediately for the Gulph of St . Florenzo , or St . Florence , there to relieve the Nassau , a 70 gun ship , commanded by Captain Holcombe , who
was stationed there to protect the malecontent Corsicans , in conjunction with the troops of the king of Sardinia and Empress Queen of Hungary , against the Genoese and their allies the French , who were then in possession of Bastia , the metropolis of the island , Calvi , Ajaccia , and several other strong places in the country . Accordingly we set sail from Leghorn the 27 th of Julyand
an-, chored in the said gulph the 30 th following . I have the honour to be , & c . THOMAS DUNCKERLEY . il
A Short Description Of Weymouth.
A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WEYMOUTH .
WEYMOUTH ( so called from being situated on the mouth of the little river Wey ) is a sea-port town , on the southern part of the county of Dorset , eight miles from the city of Dqrchester , at the bottom of a beautiful bay , which forms nearly a semi-circle , taking a sweep of more than two miles , and is so happily protected from all winds , by the surrounding hills , which not" only exhibit a leasing and picturesque viewbut render the
p , sea perfectly secure ; that even , winter storms seldom disturb its tranquillity , so that at all times of the day , and every day in the year , the valetudinarian may be certain of meeting no interruption in enjoying the salutary exercise of swimming or bathing . But , though strangers commonly confound all the place under the general name of Weymouththat part on which the
; company resides , is , strictly speaking , Melcombe Regis , or King ' s Melcombe , so called because it was built on the demesne lands of the crown , as long ago as the reign of Edward the F ' > and this pleasant spot is divided from Weymouth ( now called the old town ) , by a bridge . —The late Ralph Allen , Esq . ( of benevolent memory ) . was the first that brought Weymouth into any repute as a
bathing place ; and he was the first that had a machine built for his own use in the year 1763 ; . since which time- it has been rapidly growing more and more considerable from the concourse of company by which it is now frequented every summer and autumn . There . are now great numbers of bathing-machines , to be can } -
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Letters From T. Dunckerley, Esq.
piece , called the Grand Duke ' s piece ; it is of brass , very curiously wrought ; with the aims of Tuscany on it : the weight of the ball is 421 b . At Leghorn we received orders from the admiral to proceed immediately for the Gulph of St . Florenzo , or St . Florence , there to relieve the Nassau , a 70 gun ship , commanded by Captain Holcombe , who
was stationed there to protect the malecontent Corsicans , in conjunction with the troops of the king of Sardinia and Empress Queen of Hungary , against the Genoese and their allies the French , who were then in possession of Bastia , the metropolis of the island , Calvi , Ajaccia , and several other strong places in the country . Accordingly we set sail from Leghorn the 27 th of Julyand
an-, chored in the said gulph the 30 th following . I have the honour to be , & c . THOMAS DUNCKERLEY . il
A Short Description Of Weymouth.
A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WEYMOUTH .
WEYMOUTH ( so called from being situated on the mouth of the little river Wey ) is a sea-port town , on the southern part of the county of Dorset , eight miles from the city of Dqrchester , at the bottom of a beautiful bay , which forms nearly a semi-circle , taking a sweep of more than two miles , and is so happily protected from all winds , by the surrounding hills , which not" only exhibit a leasing and picturesque viewbut render the
p , sea perfectly secure ; that even , winter storms seldom disturb its tranquillity , so that at all times of the day , and every day in the year , the valetudinarian may be certain of meeting no interruption in enjoying the salutary exercise of swimming or bathing . But , though strangers commonly confound all the place under the general name of Weymouththat part on which the
; company resides , is , strictly speaking , Melcombe Regis , or King ' s Melcombe , so called because it was built on the demesne lands of the crown , as long ago as the reign of Edward the F ' > and this pleasant spot is divided from Weymouth ( now called the old town ) , by a bridge . —The late Ralph Allen , Esq . ( of benevolent memory ) . was the first that brought Weymouth into any repute as a
bathing place ; and he was the first that had a machine built for his own use in the year 1763 ; . since which time- it has been rapidly growing more and more considerable from the concourse of company by which it is now frequented every summer and autumn . There . are now great numbers of bathing-machines , to be can } -