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== Allusion ==
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{{quote|<p>"ROBIN HOOD'S BAY<br/>
is a small fishing town, thirteen miles north from Scarborough<nowiki>*</nowiki>, and is frequently visited by strangers, on account of the alum-works in its vicinity. The road to it is stony and uneven, over a dreary barren moor, and the hill at ''Stoupe-brow''&#8224; is impracticable for a carriage. On descending this hill, from the moor to the sands at <keyword>Robin Hood's Bay</keyword>, the road passes the alum-works, where the curiosity of the traveller is gratified with a view of those immense mountains of alum-stone from which the salt is extracted; and the interior works are worthy of observation.</p><p>&emsp;"The road from the alum-works to the village of <keyword>Robin Hood's Bay</keyword>, is along the sandy beach, close under a high,steep cliff, to which the sea flows as the tide advances, and the passage is unsafe, except there be a spacious area of the sand uncovered by the water, or the tide be receding. [p. 89:]</p><p>&emsp;"''The Sea-coast northward'' from Scarborough is craggy, wild, and terrific, bending inward as far as the River Tees, and by its winding, forming this bay, nearly a mile in breadth. The sands here, are firm and level; but the shore, at a little ''distance'' from the ''Cliff'', is rocky; and there is only a narrow passage from the sea, where the fishing boats can land in safety.</p><p>&emsp;"The village consists of the habitations of fishermen, and once made a grotesque appearance, the houses being strangely scattered over the face of a steep cliff, and some of them hanging in an awful manner on the projecting ledges of the precipice; but this place has lately sustained a great alteration by the falling of the cliff; in consequence of which, the projecting houses and the pavement of the principal street as far as the fronts of the houses on the opposite side, are ruined, and a new road has been made from the landing-place through the interior part of the town. The village derives its name from that famous outlaw, <keyword>Robin Hood</keyword>."<ref>{{:Cole, John 1825a}}, pp. 88-89.</ref></p>}}</onlyinclude>

== Source notes ==
Italics and quotation marks as in printed source. IRHB's brackets.<br/>
Footnote <nowiki>*</nowiki>: "Between Scarborough and Robin Hood's Bay are only two villages; Burniston four miles, and Clougnton five miles from Scarborough. There is nothing worthy of note at these places, except a quarry of freestone at the latter, from whence the Castle of Scarborough is said to have been built."<br/>
Footnote &#8224;; "About two miles from Robin Hood's Bay."

== Lists ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-11.
* Outside scope of {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}.

== Editions ==
* {{:Cole, John 1825a}}; see pp. 88-89.
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