And a more modern poet describes with greater particularity this predominating vegetable.
"On Cantium's hills,
The flowery hop, with tendrils climbing round
The tall, aspiring pole, bears its light head
Aloft, in pendent clusters."
The name of Cantium, which was given to this county by Cæsar, is referred by Camden to the word Canton, or Cant, signifying corner, because it stretched out in the form of a large angle, comprehending the south-east coast of the island.
Though our journey from London to Dover was principally performed amidst a violent rain, we were not precluded from some observation of the finely varied country through which we were passing.
Rochester Cathedral, which, notwithstanding the storm, we found opportunity to visit, is of early Saxon origin, and suffered much under William the Conqueror, and at the Reformation. It has statues of Henry the Second, and his queen, Matilda, but not many monuments to illustrious men. It is the smallest of the cathedrals in England, and belongs to the smallest diocese.
Canterbury Cathedral towered up like a mountain through the dimness of twilight. The edifice which originally occupied its site was burned by the Danes, during their siege of the city in 1011, and rebuilt in
