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Excerpt from The Old House at Sandwich: A Novel I AM making a summer holiday excursion about a corner of the pastoral county of Kent and come upon the quaint, old-fashioned port of Sandwich. I am impressed with the remarkable way in which it has retired from the sea, gone inland, as it were, like a mi grated city; gone inland, nursing its strange history and traditions, its memories of Elizabeth and the Armada, its memories of battle, murder, and sudden death; nursing as it were, its commercial and social disappointments, and retiring altogether from a sea-faring life. I wander about the old place and note its curious waterways, that wind about the town, forming natural moats to streets and houses; and in one instance excavating for itself a passage beneath the dining-room of an ingenious resident who, by the contrivance of a trap-door, converts it into a convenient Wine-cooler for summer din ner parties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Old House at Sandwich, Vol. 1 of 2: The Story of a Ruined Home, as Developed in the Strange Revelations of Hickory Maynard Hatton, f.c S., &c., Scientific Explorer in the Service of the British North Borneo Company and Government of Sabah. With Preface by the late sir walter medhubst, and Biographic Sketch by joseph hatton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.