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We cannot pafs this antient ftatue without giving fome defcription of it: it is about eight feet high, and is very much mutilated. The annexed sketch will give fome idea of its prefent appearance, which is very different to that in Hollar's print, introduced in Dugdale, where it seems to be in a perfect state.

THE outside of the venerable chapel, toge

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ther with part of the adjoining cliff, I have likewife thought fit to give in the following sketch. The higher aperture in the cliff opens to a cave, faid to have been the oratory of the famous Guy, and before it was the favourite walk of his lady, the fair Phillis, alluded to in the ballad before mentioned. She was the daughter of a Saxon Earl, Rohand, in the days of King Alfred; whofe name was Felicia.

THIS place was the refidence of another

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