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a wide extent of coast at the western extremity of which we saw the Needles distinctly though 18 miles distant. (I omitted to notice that the Sandrock Spring converts the earth over which it passes into a strong oxide of iron & changes its color to it also. We saw Blackgangchine by a strong sun light, which may have subdued the awful sublimity by which description writers characterise it. It is a curiously shaped cavern, like the inner half of an egg & a dribbling stream falls or rather drops from the centre of it. We hired a car at the new hotel to take us to Ryde, for there was a scarcity of them in our neighbourhood, in consequence of a consecration of a church at Ventnor by the Bishop of Winchester, at which almost [every] person in the island desired to be present, we were told.

This neighbourhood is celebrated for crabs & a very nice one we had dressed for dinner hot today. At 3 we bid adieu to this favored retreat & passing in our car quite through the centre of the island saw nothing very remarkable to note, but that the country was very pretty & quiet. Newport looked dull as usual – in reaching Ryde we joined our friends the Thorps & after tea walked about the town & into the shops until after darkness had become visible.
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