. The North Devon coast. d taught her: A maiden, pure, lo ! here I stand, Neither on sea, nor yet on land ; Angels watch me on either hand. If you be landsman, come down the strand ; If you be sailor, come up the sand ; If you be angel, come from the sky, Look in my glass, and pass me by. Look in my glass, and go from the shore ; Leave me, but love me for evermore. It was with a not unnatural superstitious fear,under these magical moonlit circumstances that,even as she was gazing into the mirror and re-peating those lines, hurried footsteps were hearddescending to the Mouth. They were not, how
. The North Devon coast. d taught her: A maiden, pure, lo ! here I stand, Neither on sea, nor yet on land ; Angels watch me on either hand. If you be landsman, come down the strand ; If you be sailor, come up the sand ; If you be angel, come from the sky, Look in my glass, and pass me by. Look in my glass, and go from the shore ; Leave me, but love me for evermore. It was with a not unnatural superstitious fear,under these magical moonlit circumstances that,even as she was gazing into the mirror and re-peating those lines, hurried footsteps were hearddescending to the Mouth. They were not, how-ever, angelic or demoniac apparitions nor evenearthly lovers : merely fugitive Jesuits and traitors. MARSLAND MOUTH 243 It is sad to find this scene overlooked by thosehideous stuccoed houses on the ridge, but, at any-rate, as I straddle the little summer-time trickleof the stream in the bottom, dividing Devon andCornwall, I cannot but admire the fine note ofpicturesqueness and high romance on which thiscoast-line AT MOUTH. INDEX Abbotsham, 205 Appledore, 86, 140, 170, 174, 197, 200Armada guns, 189Ariavia, Barnstaple, 208 Baggy Point, 140 Barle, River, 5 Barley Bay, 227 Barnstaple, 27, 29, 30, 86, T13,115, 154-72, 208 Barricane Beach, 138 Barum, Barnstaple, 161 Benson, Thomas, 115 Berrynarbor, 77, 95, 128-30 Bickington, 174 Bideford, 86, 115, 170- ^73^176-97, 205 and Westward Ho ! Rail-way, 197 Black Church Rock, 226 Mouth, 228 Blackstone Point, 68 Bloody Corner, 199 Blue Ball inn, Countisbury, 36Bone Hill, 198Bonhill Top, 52Brannock, Saint, 141, 142, 144. 145Braunton, 142, 144-9. ^94 Burrows, 2, 143, 149^54. 198Brendon Two Gates, 6Briary Caves, 80Bridge Ball, 6, 31Bucks Cross, 206 Mill, 206 Bull Point, 132Burrow Nose, 80 Caen, River, 149Capern, Edward, 193-6Capstone Hill, 84, 92, 97 Parade, 85, 94, 97 Cary family, 211Castle Rock, 45, 50, 51Catherine Tor, 238Chain Beach, 85Chambercombe, 97, 123-8Champernowne family, 89, 128 Chanters Folly, 175Chapman Barr
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