[32] According to a "Note" in the _Rochester and Chatham Journal_, the derivation of this curious term is from _uro_ to burn (ustus). [33] One of the "Five Cinque Ports, and two Ancient Towns" often referred to, but not always remembered--Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, New Romney, Hythe, Winchelsea and Rye. [34] Mr. Charles Dickens kindly writes to me:--"The lady who objected to the donkeys lived at Broadstairs. I knew her when I was a boy." CHAPTER XII. COOLING, CLIFFE, AND HIGHAM. "And now the range of marshes lay clear before us, with the sails of the ships on the river growing out of it; and we went into the Churchyard . . . and the light wind strewed it with beautiful shadows of clouds and trees." * * * * * "What might have been your opinion of the place?" "A most beastly place. Mudbank, mist, swamp and work; work, swamp, mist, and mudbank."--_Great Expectations._ * * * * * "They were now in the open country; the houses were very few and scattered at long intervals, often miles apart. Occasionally they came upon a cluster of poor cottages, some with a chair or low board put across the open door, to keep the scrambling children from the road; others shut up close, while all the family were working in the fields. These were often the commencement of a little village; and after an interval came a wheelwright's shed, or perhaps a blacksmith's forge; then a thriving farm, with sleepy cows lying about the yard, and horses peering over the low wall, and scampering away when harnessed horses passed upon the road, as though in triumph at their freedom."--_The Old Curiosity Shop._