. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. among alternatebanks and channels we pass by Stoke Gabriel and Dittisham,famous for very succulent damsons, and many another villagelying in soft hollows by the stream. In a little while we seeSandridge where John Davis was born, most early famousamong Arctic voyagers, if not absolutely first; and then comesthe ancient house of Greenway, the home of those two gallantgentlemen, Humphrey and Adrian Gilbert, whose highimaginations wrought and shaped such noble schemes as firedall mens minds with their own enthusiasm, and charged theirmemories with so s
. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. among alternatebanks and channels we pass by Stoke Gabriel and Dittisham,famous for very succulent damsons, and many another villagelying in soft hollows by the stream. In a little while we seeSandridge where John Davis was born, most early famousamong Arctic voyagers, if not absolutely first; and then comesthe ancient house of Greenway, the home of those two gallantgentlemen, Humphrey and Adrian Gilbert, whose highimaginations wrought and shaped such noble schemes as firedall mens minds with their own enthusiasm, and charged theirmemories with so strong an affection and respect, that now,after three centuries, their names are household words as muchas Philip Sydneys. And then, that we may omit no oneamong the points of interest upon this famous stream, we willcall attention to the Anchor stone, a black rock in mid river,which was a most useful public institution in ancient Dart-mouth. For thither the shipmen used to convey thosescolding women and disobedient wives, who in other towns. 102 FIRST ASPECTS OF DARTMOUTH chap. were, and are, so very hard to deal with. An hours sojourn onthe Anchor stone with a rising tide was often quite enough torestore obedience to her seat; and if not, why the stubbornwoman could be left there. By this time the brown river water is turning green, and thebeginnings of Dartmouth are in sight. First come a few ship-building yards, and then, lying a little way off shore, those twoold battleships, linked together by a gallery, which all Englandknows as the Britannia; and before one has done gazing atthese hulks, and marvelling at the gracious acts of Providencewhereby the reckless youngsters bred on board them are alonepreserved from cutting short their careers beneath the paddlesof the steamer, before, I say, we have quite realised that theriver has been left behind and the sea is come, we are in mid-harbour, enclosed on every side by hills so steep and loftythat the comparison which leaps into
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