History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local EventsErredge, John Ackerson
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History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local Events
Erredge, John Ackerson
Brighton (England) -- History
Few organic remains have been found near Brighton. Dr. Mantell mentions
but a fragment of a bone resembling the femur, and a grinder of a large
size, decidedly the latter that of an Asiatic elephant, in the brick-loam
at Hove; the jaw of a whale in the shingle bed; the antlers and bones of
the red deer in a bed of loam, in sinking a well near the cavalry
barracks; the remains of a deer in the diluvium at Copperas Gap, by the
Rev. H. Hoper; and similar remains in digging a well near the Western
Road.
With respect to climate, medical men, who have made it their study, have
divided the town into three districts. In 1845, Dr. Wigan, then in
medical practice in the town, published an elaborate treatise, “Brighton
and its Three Climates,” and in 1859, Dr. Kebbell, Physician to the
Sussex County Hospital, produced his valuable book, “The Climate of
Brighton.” The former considers the north-west part of the town the most
salubrious, as it is exempt from the keen easterly winds, and is
generally free from the fogs and smoke of the central district. It is
free, too, of the marine exhalations to which that district is subject.
The air of the east division is bracing, and likewise exempt from the
saline particles which impregnate the atmosphere of the lower part of the
town, a district which differs but little from any inland town in a low
situation, and possesses none of the quality called bracing. Fogs, night
and morning, frequently hang about the middle district, which may be
termed the business quarter of the town.
Dr. Kebbell says:—
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