A pictorial and descriptive guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport with excursions by river, road and sea . UP THE TAMAR 93 hamlet of Cargreen, with its little quay, and on theDevon bank is Halls Hole, usually called Holes Hole,where steamers occasionally stop and in which fruitgardens are numerous. A little farther north, onthe Cornwall side, is a promontory meeting a corre-sponding hollow on that of Devon ; and here beginsthat series of serpentine curves to which the Tamarowes so much of its charm. Clearing the first curve,Pentillie Castle appears on the Cornish bank, risingabruptly fro
A pictorial and descriptive guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport with excursions by river, road and sea . UP THE TAMAR 93 hamlet of Cargreen, with its little quay, and on theDevon bank is Halls Hole, usually called Holes Hole,where steamers occasionally stop and in which fruitgardens are numerous. A little farther north, onthe Cornwall side, is a promontory meeting a corre-sponding hollow on that of Devon ; and here beginsthat series of serpentine curves to which the Tamarowes so much of its charm. Clearing the first curve,Pentillie Castle appears on the Cornish bank, risingabruptly from the water. It is in the Gothic style, andwas built from designs by Wilkins, the architect of Down-ing College, Cambridge. Immediately behind is atower, on the summit of a wooded eminence known asMount Ararat, beneath which a former owner, Sir JamesTillie, was buried. He was somewhat eccentric, andis said to have given directions that after death hisbody should be placed in a chair before a table set outin convivial fashion. His statue, seated in a chair, wasplaced in a room in the tower, and was the objec
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