. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot. ublic ground. Then I went inlandby a footpath; and returned by the stream valley. It is apublic garden all along the latter on both sides ; but it is notgood save in a general way. Taking a train one stationtowards Exeter by the root of the Warren sand-spit, I wentone mile beyond to the gate of the park of Powderham Cas-tle, belonging to the Earl of Devonshire. I prowled aboutalone; and found my way up a
. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot. ublic ground. Then I went inlandby a footpath; and returned by the stream valley. It is apublic garden all along the latter on both sides ; but it is notgood save in a general way. Taking a train one stationtowards Exeter by the root of the Warren sand-spit, I wentone mile beyond to the gate of the park of Powderham Cas-tle, belonging to the Earl of Devonshire. I prowled aboutalone; and found my way up a big hill, and up a tower atthe top of it. Exeter and Exmouth and the almost waterlessExe were in view. Then I prowled some more, finding lovelyslopes and swells, very large Oaks, Beeches, Ashes, andCedars, occasional thickets of Bracken, and many deer. Iswung round past a cottage or two, seeing Roses in profusionand Pansies used as edging along the path through a potatopatch, — standard Roses rising from potatoes! The group- 140 LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. ENGLAND [1886 ing of cottages with large trees was charming. A red sand-stone church sat on the bank of the Exe. Thence I drifted. into the park again; and before long found myself close tothe castle with its dry moats, high-walled courts, cornertowers, and iron gates, and a large towered mass of mainbuilding. I retreated to a respectful distance; and then tooka bee-line back to Starcross, through the park most of theway. The effect of the great castle with its surroundingwalls seen through groves of great trunks, or terminatingopen glades, was fine. It was low water in the Exe; andsome fishery or other was going on, — men wading and drag-ging nets. Big ships below were aground and keeled over,their spars looking strange seen between big trees. That evening, by train past Dawlish to Teignmouth; and a look around the townafter supper. This is another town on a spit, with a sanddune on the sea front, lately parked, but not
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