. The North Devon coast. evenmore delightful. He takes what the scientificworld styles the line of least resistance, andgaily dismisses it with probably the land of someCountess. But there is not much of this Countisbury,about whose name there has been so much a bleached-looking, weather-beaten church,the Blue Ball inn, typical rural hostelry ofthese parts, and the school-house. For the lifeof me, I do not know which drone the loudest ona hot, drowsy summer afternoon ; the bees or theschool-children at their lessons—the bees, I that is all there is to Countisbury, you thi
. The North Devon coast. evenmore delightful. He takes what the scientificworld styles the line of least resistance, andgaily dismisses it with probably the land of someCountess. But there is not much of this Countisbury,about whose name there has been so much a bleached-looking, weather-beaten church,the Blue Ball inn, typical rural hostelry ofthese parts, and the school-house. For the lifeof me, I do not know which drone the loudest ona hot, drowsy summer afternoon ; the bees or theschool-children at their lessons—the bees, I that is all there is to Countisbury, you , indeed, is the sum-total of the village, but THE COAST 37 the parish itself ranges down to the Lyn, whichforms the boundary, as the curious may dulydiscover, set forth on the keystone of the bridgethat spans the stream, just outside the grounds ofthe Tors Hotel, which itself is, therefore, in theparish of Countisbury. There is little within the old church, with theexception of some line old characteristic West. THE BLUE BALL. Country bench-ends, one of them bearing, boldlycarved, the heraldic swan of the Bohuns and thebezants of the Courtenays. We here come to that great projection, Countis-bury Foreland, past the school-house and byfootpaths. A lighthouse, very new, very glaring,with white paint and whitewashed enclosure-walls,near the head of the point, sears the eye on brilliantsunshiny days. It was built so recently as 1899,and equipped with the latest things in scientific 38 THE NORTH DEVON COAST apparatus. It casts a warning ray on clear nights,it moans weirdly in foggy weather, like the spiritsof the damned ; and, in addition, it has machineryfor exploding charges of gun-cotton at regularintervals. It is wound up once in four hours,and then proceeds to automatically producethirteen explosions in the hour. So, in one wayand another it will be allowed the shipping of theBristol Channel is well looked after. From thispoint, the coast of South Wales is distinctly
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