The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Cornish tower of St. Ihideaiix (liiirch, wlmse melodious Ixlls cliime cheeriU acrosstlie water, rises high al)ove the Devon bank. lleie the iavy makes with the Tamar, and the twin rivers How on by into the the numth of the Tavy, on the Cornish side, is the ecclesiastical])arish of St. Stephen-by-Saltisli, with the ruins of Ticmatcm Castle at the summitof a \vell-woo(li(l hill. The castle is believed to have been built at the period o
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Cornish tower of St. Ihideaiix (liiirch, wlmse melodious Ixlls cliime cheeriU acrosstlie water, rises high al)ove the Devon bank. lleie the iavy makes with the Tamar, and the twin rivers How on by into the the numth of the Tavy, on the Cornish side, is the ecclesiastical])arish of St. Stephen-by-Saltisli, with the ruins of Ticmatcm Castle at the summitof a \vell-woo(li(l hill. The castle is believed to have been built at the period ofthe Conquest, and was subsequently held \)y the Earls of Iornwall. The Tamar.] Si ALT ASH AND THE HAMOAZE. 59 At Saltash—as the Western men -will not forget to remind the boasting Cockney—the Tamar is wider than the Thames at Westminster. Sahash itself, by the wav,was originally (according to Carew) Mlla de Esse, after a family of that name, andto this was added Salt, on account of its marine situation. The busy littlewaterside town has this great dignity—that its ]Mayor and Corporation take. MORWELL ROCKS (^«. 55), jDreeedence of those of Plyniouth and Devonport. .Saltash has gradually, throughmany generations, built itself up a steep, rocky acclivity until the habitations extendto the summit of the hill at Longstone, from which favoured eminence the prospectis ven^ fine. Here may Ave see the broadened river where the ebbing tide swu-lsl)y the 3Iount Edgciinibe training-ship, that is swinging round on its tidal pivot justabove Bruneis great bridge; thence, flowing beneath the wondrous iron link of thetwo westernmost counties with which the engineer spanned the river, here half a mileacross, the Tamar, now joined by the Lynher from the West, loses its identity inthe all-embracing Hamoaze, with its wood-fringed shores; the river passing un-remarked into Plj-mouth Harbour, from the Harbour to the Sound, and from theSound to the Channel—forgotten noAv in the great afPair
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