Which preposition to use with margate
The incident possibly occurred to Lamb when as a boyor little morehe stayed at Margate about 1790.
In the Elia essay "The Old Margate Hoy," Lamb states that the first time he saw the sea was on a visit to Margate as a boy, by waterprobably the voyage that suggested this sonnet.
This circumstance alarmed me exceedingly, and I began to think it was impossible for me to escape with my life; but recovering a little, I once more looked down upon the earth, when, to my inexpressible joy, I saw Margate at a little distance, and the eagle descending on the old tower whence it had carried me on the morning of the day before.
It hovered over Margate for some time, was seen by several people, and many shots were fired at it; one ball hit the heel of my shoe, but did me no injury.
*** "Ramsgate," says The Daily Mail, "is racing Margate in Thanet's reconstruction."