|particularly a Mosaic pavement, four feet under the surface of the |ground. St. Peter’s is the only church that can be called |handsome. In the neighbourhood are extensive meadows, and a down |on which vast flocks of sheep are fed. This place is noted for the |excellence of its ale, which is sent to all parts of the kingdom. |It has a good market on Wednesday and Saturday. | 23|=Dorking=, Surrey, 63. A market town and parish. The town stands |on a rock of soft sandy stone, in the angle of two fine vallies, |surrounded by beautiful hills. The church is collegiate, and has a |square tower near the centre, with eight bells, and a set of |chimes. The streets are wide, well paved, and very clean. A great |traffic is carried on in lime, which is accounted superior to any |other made in the country: the town also supports a considerable |trade in meal. Dorking is noted for its breed of poultry, which is |remarkably large and fine, and singular for the birds having five |toes in each claw. Capons bred here about Christmas, often weigh |seven or eight pounds out of the feathers. | |In the suburbs are many elegant seats. | |The custom of Borough English prevails in this manor, by which the |_youngest_ son is heir to a copyhold estate. It contains 607 |houses, and 3259 inhabitants; and has a market on Thursday. | 71|=Dover=, Kent, 10. A sea port and market town, and one of the |cinque ports, containing 3068 houses, and 13,418 inhabitants. This |town lies in a valley, encompassed by a semicircle of hills, and |was formerly surrounded by a wall which had 10 gates, and appears |to have been in a very flourishing state in the reign of Edward |the Confessor, who incorporated it by the style of a mayor and |commonalty. | |The town consists of two parts, connected by a long narrow street, |called Snaresgate Street, from the lofty rocks that overhang it, |and seem to threaten the passenger with instant death. The town |hall stands in the market place, and is ornamented with several |good portraits, and a curious print of the embarkation of Henry |the Eighth for France. It has also a neat assembly room, a |theatre, and two circulating libraries. | |Here were formerly seven churches, but five of them have long |since been demolished; those remaining are dedicated to St. Mary |the Virgin, and St. James: the former was built by the prior and |convent of St. Martin’s, for the use of the inhabitants, and the |foundation of its tower was built upon the remains of an ancient |Roman bath. The church of St. James anciently belonged to the |castle, and in it the Courts of Chancery and Admiralty for the |Cinque Ports are still occasionally held. In the reign of Henry |the Third a large religious house was founded by Hubert de Burgh,