. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. another streamlet, hurrying down its winding channel to theshore ; and then it rises, and from the opposite hill you lookback on the sea, framed by the noble sloping sides of thecombe all blazing with yellow foliage. Overhead a single birdgives out a twittering note, but otherwise the silence is un-broken. Then suddenly the road sweeps out on an open breezyhillside amid fragrant furze and hawthorn bushes bursting bud ;and you look down for the last time on the old world harbourwith its ancient pier slumbering at the foot of the steep whitehouses ; a
. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. another streamlet, hurrying down its winding channel to theshore ; and then it rises, and from the opposite hill you lookback on the sea, framed by the noble sloping sides of thecombe all blazing with yellow foliage. Overhead a single birdgives out a twittering note, but otherwise the silence is un-broken. Then suddenly the road sweeps out on an open breezyhillside amid fragrant furze and hawthorn bushes bursting bud ;and you look down for the last time on the old world harbourwith its ancient pier slumbering at the foot of the steep whitehouses ; and so the drive winds away out of sight of Clovellyand our faces are set towards the eight miles of uninterestingroad between that little paradise and Bideford. I did not mean to quarrel any more with Devon, but Prince,who came sidling up again when I had half forgotten hisexistence, really forces a dispute on me about the they a Cornish or a Devon family? Can they beclassed as Bideford people with a country house at Stowe in.
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