THE SCARBOROUGH GUIDE, (A SECOND EDITION) TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A DESCRIPTIVE ROUTE THROUGH HULL AND BEVERLEY, WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS, ANECDOTES, AND CHARACTERS. "Quo tendis ?-non mihi Cumas "Eft iter, et Baias ?- "Mutandus locus eft, et Diverforia nota "Prateragendus Equus!" HOR. HULL: PRINTED BY THOMAS LEE AND CO. SCALE-LANE, FOR J. SCHOFIELD, SCARBOROUGH, ΤΟ THE PUBLIC SPIRITED INHABITANTS AND LOYAL VOLUNTEERS OF SCARBOROUGH; ΤΟ EACH INDIVIDUALLY, AND TO THAT RESPECTABLE CORPS, COLLECTIVELY, (Decus Patria, et Tutamen,) THIS GENERAL SKETCH OF A DISTRICT THEY CAME FORWARD, EQUALLY TO PROTECT AGAINST FOREIGN, OR INTERNAL ENEMIES, IS WITH THE FULLEST APPROBATION, AND ESTEEM, DEDICATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE EDITORS. "Quorum Hominum Regio, et qualis via, "Tractus uter plures Lepores, uter educet Apros, 66 Pinguis ut inde Domum, Phæaxq revertas, "Scribere me Vobis, mihi vos accredere Par eft." VIDE HOR. EP. XV. DEIRAS fummer fkies, and cooling gales, Her favage mountains, and prolific vales, MEMORANDUM. JAMES SCHOFIELD, Bookfeller, defires to be held exempt from praife or blame, for whatever follows, not contained in the last edition of the Scarborough Guide; he having feen the copy, only fince it was printed. The infcription to the Scarborough Volunteers, he indeed excepts. That, he did fee; and cordially fubfcribes to. This he premises to the following fheets, "Non quia craffe "Compofitum, illepidere putetur, fed quia *The Eastern Parts of Yorkshire. HOR. SCARBOROUGH. "Where for a little time, alas, "We lived right jollily!" THOMSON. THE HE fame, and attractions of unnumbered bathing places, which now emerge from obfcurity, and divide the liking of the public, are of a date altogether modern, when compared with the established and well founded repute, of Scarborough, and its Spaw, This place was a favorite resort for the opulent, the gay, and the infirm, when refinements of civilization, and the extenfion of commerce, among us, were yet in a very early state of progreffion and long before Dr. Ruffel wrote a line, or plunged a fingle patient in the fea at Brighthelmftone, Scarborough had been celebrated for its waters, its air, its fituation, and its cures. Revolutions, whether in fafhion, or medical opinion, cannot bear down, though they may certainly oppofe, even with temporary fuccefs, the reasons of health, or the fituations most apt for promoting it; but, nature and truth are not finally to be overcome, and thefe evidently ftand forth in fupport of "Scarborough altogether!" Whether, from the lifts of restoration to health; of longevity in its neighbourhood; or comfort, and every |