Considering myself almost a veteran in Topogra phical and Antiquarian literature, from having de voted nearly forty years to the subject — after visit ing and describing many of the famed watering and sea-bathing places of the kingdom, I was at last tempted to sojourn a few days at 'tunbridge Wells, in the summer of 1830. Pleased with the wildness and' picturesque features of the place and surrounding country, interested by the many at tractive antiquities, objects of art, and Of historic fame, which are to be found within a few miles of the Wells, and finding that I could he waited rapidly and easily from the metropolis to a fashion able hamlet so rural, and yet so well adapted to administer to the comforts and luxuries of life, I was not only seduced to study its characteristics, but to commit to the press a few facts and re?ections on the subjects named in the title-page. These are not the lucubrations of idle moments, but have been produced at intervals, between other more pressing occupations.