The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . of singular beauty. On the riiilit Ileltor, on the left Blackstone,exalt their towering heads, both crowned with l;n;.;c rock liasins. in whicli therude fancy of our forefathers saw missiles that King Arthur and the CJreat AdversaryInn-led at each other athwart the intervening vallev. So, ])assing more and morewithin the marg-in of cultivation, we come to (liudlei^li. witli its Kock. yielding ablue limestone, known to the builder as Chudleigh nuirlde, and its lovely, richly-wooded jrlen, dow
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . of singular beauty. On the riiilit Ileltor, on the left Blackstone,exalt their towering heads, both crowned with l;n;.;c rock liasins. in whicli therude fancy of our forefathers saw missiles that King Arthur and the CJreat AdversaryInn-led at each other athwart the intervening vallev. So, ])assing more and morewithin the marg-in of cultivation, we come to (liudlei^li. witli its Kock. yielding ablue limestone, known to the builder as Chudleigh nuirlde, and its lovely, richly-wooded jrlen, down which a little tributarv dances gaily into the Teii:!!. Not agreat way beyond, our river is swollen i)V the waters of a more important aflliient, The Teign.] NEWTON ABBOT. 39 the Bovey, whicli, from its source on Dartmoor, lias followed a course not dissimilarfrom that of the Teign, lilting along through a rich and often spacious valley, pastNorth Bovey, Manaton, Lustleigh, with its Cleave, and Bovey Tracy. At NewtonAbbot, pleasantly placed a little to the south of the Teign, in a vale watered by. , Venney it C\>., Tcifjiimouth. TEIGXMOVTH (p. 40). the Lemon, we may have line vieAVS of the valleys of the Teign and theBovey by ascending the hills up which this neat little town has straggled. Its mostmemorable association is mth the glorious Revolution, and there still stands in frontof a Perpendicular tower, which is all that is left of the old Chapel of St. Leonard,the l)lock of granite from which the Prince of Oranges proclamation was swerving sharply to the east, the Teign develops into an estuary, and 40 RirERS OF GREAT nUITATX. [The Teion. with a bafki:rouiul nf liills on oitluT liaiul, those du the loft rising into the broaddowns of Ilaltlon, hastens to discharge itself into the sea, flowing beneatli whatelainis to l»e the longest wooden bridge in England, wliieh connects Teignniouth onthe north with Shaldon on the south. Teignniouth is an ancient iisliinii-
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