. The North Devon coast. simplicityof outline. Shelving down steeply to where theHeddon flows at the bottom, only an occasionaloutcrop of rock stands up. For the rest, they areclothed in patches and streaks with bracken andwith a short, wiry innutritions grass, and verylargely strewn from top to bottom with countlessthousands of tons of rocky rubbish, blue-grey ingeneral effect of colour, and in appearance like therefuse on the tip banks of mines. Oddly enough,such a generous distribution of waste materialdoes not help to spoil the scenery. The hillsidesend, seaward, in grey, red and yellow-br
. The North Devon coast. simplicityof outline. Shelving down steeply to where theHeddon flows at the bottom, only an occasionaloutcrop of rock stands up. For the rest, they areclothed in patches and streaks with bracken andwith a short, wiry innutritions grass, and verylargely strewn from top to bottom with countlessthousands of tons of rocky rubbish, blue-grey ingeneral effect of colour, and in appearance like therefuse on the tip banks of mines. Oddly enough,such a generous distribution of waste materialdoes not help to spoil the scenery. The hillsidesend, seaward, in grey, red and yellow-brown cliffs,where an old limekiln, like a stone blockhouse fort. 64 THE NORTH DEVON COAST lends a specious air of historic assault and batteryto the scene. Here the Heddon stream comestrickling down among the boulders of the beach ;sometimes indeed, when thunderstorms havevexed the uplands, swirling down in a coffee-coloured tumult and staining a calm sea for a longdistance out. Winding footpaths lead up the lonely valley. HUNTER S INN. and through a wood, and then conduct to a well-known hostelry in these parts, the Hunters many long years this was a picturesquethatched house, but it was burnt down at last,in 1895, and the new Hunters Inn, althoughit is built very charmingly and in good taste, andreally is as picturesque as the one it replaces, hasnot yet existed long enougli to compel the affec-tions of the sentimental. There is a namelesssomething in these things, an elusive flavour, an TRENTISHOE 65 unexpected feeling, it may be, that the old inn waspicturesque by accident, as it were, and was thenatural product of its era and surroundings, whilethe new was created to be self-consciously is a favourite resort of anglers, who, exceptin summer, when pedestrians and carriage-partiescome this way, have the inn and the whole valleyvery much to themselves, for there is no neigh-bourly village and Trentishoe is a mile distant,half-way up one of the steepest of hil
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