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
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old to be dismantled,and its extensive and picturesque ruins now form one of the great attractionsof the visitors to the neighbouring spa of Leamington. In 1811 this favouriteresort of invalids and pleasure-seekers was a humble and obscure village of fivehundred inhabitants. Since then the fame of its sulphureous, saline, and chalybeatesprings has gone on increasing, and with it the number of residents and visitors, andnow this new town far exceeds in population its venerable neighbour Warwick,from which it is still separated by the Avon, here joined by the Leam, but whichits new streets are rapidly approach in ■. Only a few miles below Warwick we reach another town rich in historicalassociations. This is Stmtfonl-on-Avon, the birthplace of Shakspore. Thehouse in which the poet lived, and was probably born, still exists, and there arefew monuments held in higher veneration than this humble dwelling, nowconverted into a museum. The last descendant of the family, having become
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WAEWICKSHIRE. 107 irnpoverîslied, was compelled to leave it about the commencement of this century.The great dramatist lies buried in the parish church, and a monument was raisedin his honour by Garrick, the actor. A small theatre has been recently erected incelebration of the third centenary of his birth, and contains a Shakspere library,together with works of art relating to the poet. The environs of the town aboundin sites and villages referred to in Shaksperes plays and ballads, and there even Fii?. 57.—Warwick and Leamington.

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