. The North Devon coast. theastonishing salubrity of the place ; but an inhabi-tant, of Brighton chancing this way would beamused. At Brighton there are generally to befound half a dozen hale and hearty centenarians. Odd names are not infrequent ; for example, Humphrey Rottenberry, and Ann of the samename, who died aged 94, and thus nearly becameone of those witnesses to the supreme value of theIlfracombe air. Herapaths, too, abound. The interior of the church is something of anarchitectural puzzle, owing to the additions madein succeeding ages. The grotesque thirteenth-century stone corbels s
. The North Devon coast. theastonishing salubrity of the place ; but an inhabi-tant, of Brighton chancing this way would beamused. At Brighton there are generally to befound half a dozen hale and hearty centenarians. Odd names are not infrequent ; for example, Humphrey Rottenberry, and Ann of the samename, who died aged 94, and thus nearly becameone of those witnesses to the supreme value of theIlfracombe air. Herapaths, too, abound. The interior of the church is something of anarchitectural puzzle, owing to the additions madein succeeding ages. The grotesque thirteenth-century stone corbels supporting the waggon-roofand its array of wooden angels, are particularlyinteresting. They form a strange assemblage ofmonsters, in which some see only a freakish THE OLD CHURCH 103 imagination ; but many of them are illustrationsof legends once current in this romantic among them are the lean cow, Chiche-vache, and the well-conditioned cow, Bycorn : thefirst in so sorry a condition because her only
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