Victorian photo #49: Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)

The author of this Victorian book seems ever-so-slightly less than impressed with Shanklin Chine, but when my great great grandparents George and Mary Millman visited nine years earlier (see The Millman Letters), they were enchanted:

While walking through the Chine, no pen can describe the beauties of nature which we beheld, the chasms & heights & depths & the natural rusticity of the place was indeed calculated to make one break out into Poetry if into nothing else.