Identifier: highwaysbywaysi00norw (find matches)
Title: Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Norway, Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1859-1938 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920
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Publisher: London : MacMillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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some road to Lynton. That is a roadindeed ; and if any one consult me about the best way oftravelling it, I say emphatically that way is best which makesone use ones legs the least. For human muscles were notmeant to drive a cycle over such inclines; though when I saythat, justice compels me to add that I have seen two ladiesriding the road with ease. This leads me to point out, if afact so obvious be worth mentioning at all, that hilly countriesare not trying to those who know how to ride them. Buthowever one may travel this famous road it is one that oughtnot to be missed, if only for the sake of Watermouth Castle,that grand and beautiful domain that lies among sweet woodslow down by the shore of a rocky cove. There are few sightsin lovely Devon fairer than the intersection of the valleys justbeyond the castle, a labyrinth of winding field paths underdeep plantations and threading meadow-lands so rich andverdant that one hardly sees the pheasants paddling awaythrough the lush grass.
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(To face p. 381 A slow, sure-footed creature. w- LYNTON (8i Watermouth is the gem oi all the journey; but CombeMartin is beautiful too ; and It is, moreover, famous in a wa;being one of the few places in this country where silver mineshave been worked with some show of profit Now how hillysoever or mountainous soever this county be, cries Prince,adding apprehensively, in evident anticipation of the com-plaints of modern cyclists, that such hilliness is an argumentof a serene and wholesome air, which is certainly quite true, yet its mountains themselves, barren as they seem, are not without their peculiar advantages, their very bowels being far richer than those countries which can show much more paintedlaces. One wishes that old Prince, for whose rhodomontadewe have learnt to feel something like affection, had thoughtless about the bowels of his count), and considered more itssurface. Had he deigned to write of roads, we might not nowbe left to lose our wind and temper simultaneously

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