Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . SECTION III. Remember the glories of Brian the brave.— Barons of /.^ 1 L G R I M of beauty, whoever thou art, thatseekest to amuse and, may we hope, informthy wanderings over this picturesque old townand its environs, stand with us for a fewmoments at one entrance of it, in the angleformed by the south abutment of the easternbridge. How closely in keeping with itsancient structure is everything that one sees there ; or, towrite more correctly, how time appears to have blendedthe works of
Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . SECTION III. Remember the glories of Brian the brave.— Barons of /.^ 1 L G R I M of beauty, whoever thou art, thatseekest to amuse and, may we hope, informthy wanderings over this picturesque old townand its environs, stand with us for a fewmoments at one entrance of it, in the angleformed by the south abutment of the easternbridge. How closely in keeping with itsancient structure is everything that one sees there ; or, towrite more correctly, how time appears to have blendedthe works of man into harmony with nature! The broadivy-grown wall toppling over a stream that brawls along itspebbly margin beneath ; the antique lattices that peep outfrom attics where slept the menials of some wealthy burgessof the olden day, and whence too his good old dameswaiting woman might have been wont to cast sly glances atthe passengers on the bridge ; the umbrageous trees thatscreen the liver where it gushes on you as fresh from itsfountain rock; the pendulous old sign that creaks welcome HISTORY OF 15 to man and horse over the wide archway of the host
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