A pictorial and descriptive guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport with excursions by river, road and sea . t to westaway towards the entrance of the Sound is the long thinline of the Breakwater. It scarcely seems a mile away,but is really nearly three miles distant. Beyondthe Breakwater are, on the eastward side, BovisandFort and the Mewstone, and on the west PicklecombeFort and Penlee Point ; while away on the horizonmay be discerned on a clear day the Eddystone Light-house. Nearer at hand is Drakes Island, the woodedslopes of Mount Edgcumbe forming an effective back-ground. Sheltered b
A pictorial and descriptive guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport with excursions by river, road and sea . t to westaway towards the entrance of the Sound is the long thinline of the Breakwater. It scarcely seems a mile away,but is really nearly three miles distant. Beyondthe Breakwater are, on the eastward side, BovisandFort and the Mewstone, and on the west PicklecombeFort and Penlee Point ; while away on the horizonmay be discerned on a clear day the Eddystone Light-house. Nearer at hand is Drakes Island, the woodedslopes of Mount Edgcumbe forming an effective back-ground. Sheltered by Drakes Island is the entranceto the Great Western Railway docks, occupyingthe whole of the fine inlet of Millbay, between Plymouthand Stonehouse, with the tall masts of its shippingstanding well above the roofs of the neighbouring west is the Hamoaze, where warships of everytype, safely at anchor, stretch in long fines until theHamoaze narrows into the river Tamar. To the east-ward the view takes in the long line of Staddon Heights,with its dominating forts, and the towering wall which. Plymouth.
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