...brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with a lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees...from the one great garden of the whole cultivated island277 in its yielding time - penetrate into the cathedral, subdue its earthy odour, and preach...

...such a June morning as this had been, with a brilliant sun shining over the old city of Rochester, and " the rich trees waving in the balmy air. Changes...songs of birds, scents from gardens, woods, and fields — • i>r, rather, from the one great garden of the whole <pultivaled island in its yielding time...