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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EAMBLE THE FOUBTEENTH. IN DEVON AND COBNWALL. WEEE I forced to choose an English county, to keep within its bounds for say the next seven years, it should be Devon, I think; Devon of orchards and woods, rich vales and swelling hills, navigable rivers and swift brooks; wild Dartmoor, its centre-piece, heath-purpled, rock-crowned; two seas fringed with cliff and cove, sand and foliage; the gray pinnacles of Exeter; the glorious harbour of Plymouth;?Devon, moreover, mother of as comely, kindly and contented a brood of mortals as could be found elsewhere perhaps on any equal space of the terrestrial globe. Exeter Cathedral has been for some years at the mercy of that terrible knight Sir Gilbert, and the bloom of antiquity is being carefully scraped off; but approaching from the north you can still see venerable gray walls and window- traceries, towers, buttresses, pinnacles, time-enriched. Can it be needful to repeat once more the true doctrine as to old buildings that are worth keeping Preserve, with prompt and constant care, all you can, even to the encrusting lichen: shudder at the word Eestore Into the old High Street a new wide opening has just been made from the south, otherwise it looks the same as when I first saw it eight years ago, Elizabethan picturesque porch of the Guildhall bestraddling the pavement with dwarf pillars, and old bay-windowed gables rising aloft over modern shops.PLYMOUTH. 45 Sloping up a long ridge it recalls here and there the famous Old Town of Edinburgh, and certain of the back lanes are almost as picturesque and odoriferous as the wynds of that northern city. On the wings of Steam I fled along the fringe of Dartmoor, glancing down wooded valley and up rocky fell, by Okehampton and Tavistoek, Ivybridge, and Plympton, and so, skirting a ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217142144 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217142141 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 168 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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