Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

OLD NEWSPAPERSo 95
1808, "published by Stephen Sewell, in Court street, opposite the Brick Market,"-neat and tasteful in its typographical execution, and containing a judicious variety of original and selected matter. It was published, I think, but a
single year, though deserving a longer lease of life.
As I look upon these ancient sheets, especially those of
ante-revolutionary date that have so long survived the
generation who were their first readers, the thought occurs
to me that among the many and great improvements time
has made since they first issued from the press, there is
noie greater than that in newspaper-printing itself. Fancy
presents to my view Mr. Daniel Fowle standing by the side
of the quaint-looking structure, but little superior in its
mechanism to an old-fashioned cider mill, on which these
antique copies of the Gazette, at the rate of fifty to an hundred per hour, received their impression; while that eccentric specimen of colored humanity, Prime, his serving man,
inks the types with a pair of sheepskin balls, black and
glistening as his own face. Equally incredulous would
have been both Prime and his master, to learn, that in the
not far distant future a piece of mechanism would be produced, wondrous alike for grace, beauty and celerity, fiom
whence twenty-five thousand sheets, printed, folded and
counted, could be thrown in a single hour, nor less so that
steam would be the power by which this marvellous machine could be set in motion.
RAMBLE XCVII.
Christian Shore —Freeman.'s 1Point —The I1am HIousse —
The VWaterhouse Tarnily.
IN a former Ramble we said we were unable to state the
origin of the name CQhristian Shore, given to the north part