This spot was my favourite walk in the evenings during the latter part of my school-time.

The individual whose habits and character are here given was a gentleman of the neighbourhood, a man of talent and learning, who had been educated at one of our universities, and returned to pass his time in seclusion on his own estate.

He died a bachelor in middle age.

Induced by the beauty of the prospect, he built a small summer-house on the rocks above the peninsula on which the ferry-house stands.

[In pencil here--Query, Mr.Nott ?] This property afterwards past into the hands of the late Mr.Curwen.