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,
"Collectofne bibunt imbres, puteofne perennes
"Dulcis aquæ.

"Tractus uter plures Lepores, uter educet Apros,
"Utra magis Pifces, et Echinos aquora celent,

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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,
Wild scenes, that boast the dottrel and the hare,
(The poacher's fortune, and the monarch's fare;)
Her motley hamlets fcattered o'er the plain,
Her crowded ports that bound th' incroaching main,
Her bufy fhore where thronging myriads lave,
Or drink at early dawn the briny wave.
Her favoury lobster, and delicious fcate,
Historic mufe! in humble profe relate!

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
"-nil reclum, nifi quod placuit fibi ducunt.”

*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