Transcribed from the 1800 John Parslee edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: The sea shore at Cromer] _OBSERVATIONS_ UPON THE TOWN OF CROMER, CONSIDERED AS A WATERING PLACE, AND THE Picturesque Scenery IN ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. * * * * * BY EDMUND BARTELL, JUN. * * * * * [Picture: Decorative graphic] PRINTED BY AND FOR JOHN PARSLEE, _And Sold by T. Hurst_, _No._ 32, _Pater-noster Row_, _London_; _J. Freeman_, _London-Lane_, _Norwich_. _and B. Rust_, _Cromer_. 1800. Preface. BATHING places being generally resorted to during the summer season, for the different pursuits either of health or pleasure, I have often wondered that some little account of such as are not so much esteemed as Weymouth, Brighthelmstone and Ramsgate, should not be published; and more particularly where the situation of the place itself, and the scenery of the country around, are not entirely destitute of beauty. These considerations, added to a residence on the spot, first induced me, for my private amusement, to consider Cromer and the scenery in its neighbourhood in a picturesque point of view. My profession, that of a Surgeon, leading me daily to one or other of the scenes here described, is certainly an advantage, as the features of landscape appear extremely different accordingly as they are affected by difference of weather, of lights and shadows, and of morning and evening suns. In watering places where there are neither public rooms nor assemblies, walking and riding become the chief sources of amusement; and for invalids it is more particularly necessary to divert the attention, by pointing put those things which are esteemed most worthy of observation. Few people are altogether insensible to the beauties of a fine country,—few things to a contemplative mind are capable of giving that satisfaction which the beauties of nature will afford. By the same rule, also, gentlemen’s seats, which are often the repositories of the works of art, produce ample speculation for the artist and virtuoso.