. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . - yard of itscourse is more or less dammed up; yet onward it pours, now swirling swiftlyround some black shining rock, often breaking into a score of cascades,then widening out into dark, deep, and treacherous pools, and again hurry-ing therefrom, escaping with laughter and song on its way out to the woods are sometimes visited by the red deer from the wilds andwastes and lonely streams of Exmoor—the only part of England where thedeer are wild also. The valley of Stone
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . - yard of itscourse is more or less dammed up; yet onward it pours, now swirling swiftlyround some black shining rock, often breaking into a score of cascades,then widening out into dark, deep, and treacherous pools, and again hurry-ing therefrom, escaping with laughter and song on its way out to the woods are sometimes visited by the red deer from the wilds andwastes and lonely streams of Exmoor—the only part of England where thedeer are wild also. The valley of Stones, as Southey calls it, but as it is usually designated,the Valley of Rocks, we justly characterize as one of the greatest wonders. Cl^i^^^^feiii of the West of England. Ascending from Lynmouth by a road some 300feet in length, which winds along the edge of a precipice, we i:)ass through agap in the hillside between two masses of limestone, and suddenly findourselves in a ravine between two ridges of hills, the southern hill turfed ;the vale, which runs from east to west, covered with huge stones, and frag-ments of stone among the ferns that fill it; the northern ridge completelybare, excavated of all turf and all soil, the very bone and skeleton of theearth ; rock reclining on rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge terrific palace of the Pre-.\damite kings, a city of the Anakim, must have appearedso shapeless, and yet so like the ruins of what had been shaped after thewaters of the flood subsided. I ascended with some toil the highest point;two large stones inclining on each other formed a rude jjortal on thesummit. Here I sat down. A little level platform, about two yards long,lay before me, and then the ey
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