The History and Antiquities of Horsham — John Shaqi
The History and Antiquities of HorshamDudley, Howard
History
The History and Antiquities of Horsham
Dudley, Howard
Horsham (West Sussex, England)
Coaches pass daily to and from London, Brighton, Worthing, Windsor,
Oxford, and Reading.—The Horsham and London Star Coach leaves the Swan
inn West Street, at 7 o’clock every morning, and reaches the old Bell inn
Holborn about a quarter to 12: from thence it starts the same afternoon,
at a quarter past 3, and arrives at Horsham by 8.
GAS.
The streets are now well lighted with gas, considering that this is the
first year of their illumination. The gameter is erected at the back of
Albion Terrace, another specimen of the improving state of the town. The
good people of Horsham have lately been much annoyed by the dirty
condition of their streets, occasioned by the insertion of the gas pipes,
even to such an extent as almost to merit the ancient epithet of the
county, as we find in a very old verse, or rather ryhme of the
peculiarities of each shire.
Essex ful of good hoswifes
Middlesex ful of shyves,
Kentshire hoot as fyre,
Sussex ful of dyrt and myre.
PLANTS.
RHYNCHOSPORA ALBA
SCIRPUS CARINATUS
ERYOPHORUM POLYSTACHION
CONVALLARIA MAJALIS
LUCIOLA FOSTERI
POLYGONUM BISTORTA
ABOXA MOSCHATELLINA
MONOTROPA HYPOPITYS
PYROLA MEDIA
NYMPHÆA ALBA
CARDAMINE IMPATIENS
EUPHORBIA ESULA
CAREX CURTA
CAREX STRIGOSA
ASP IDIUM OREOPTERIS
ASPIDIUM THELYPTERIS
OSMUNDA REGALIS
LYCOPODIUM SELAGO
PHASCUM ALTERNIFOLIUM
GYMNOSTOMUM FASCICULARE
NECKERA PUMILA
CALICIUM FERRUGINEUM
ARTHONIA SWARTZIANA
VARIOLARIA VELATA
PARMELIA SPECIOSA
SCYPHOPHORUS PARASITICUS
CHARA GRACITIS
SAURIAN REMAINS.
The strata around Horsham, (which is situated in the Wealden formation)
are celebrated for the abundance of the exuviæ, of large saurian
animals.—Many of the bones of the Iguanadon, an enormous reptile, which
was formerly an inhabitant of these districts, are now in the possession
of Mr G. B. Holmes, of Horsham, by whom these particulars are obligingly
communicated. The animal which more nearly approximates to it, than any
other now in existence, is the Iguana Cornuta a native of the tropical
parts of America, and from its resemblance to which it has received its
name; but more particularly on account of the teeth of the Iguanadon,
which resemble those of no other animal than the Iguana, of which one
species (the Cornuta,) has, like the Iguanadon, a single horn. If we
take the Iguana as our model, and attempt to reconstruct the enormous
Iguanadon in just proportion, from the relics which have been frequently
exhumed, we shall produce a monster 100 feet in length, which there is
every reason to believe is not an exaggeration.—Besides the Iguanadon, we
find the bones of the crocodile, the Plesiosaurus, the turtle, and other
amphibious reptiles; with the carbonized remains of monocotyledoneous
plants, arborescent ferns, and palms, &c.
[Picture: Map of Horsham]
WATER.
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