. The North Devon coast. traveller comes isthe wild windy waste of Trentishoe Down andHoldstone Down, considerably over a thousandfeet above the sea, scorching and drouthy insummer and ferociously cold in winter ; but thesedisadvantages, each in its season, have not pre-vented hopeful, would-be sellers of building-sitesfrom erecting the usual notices of this desirable land to be on offer. It has come to this at last,that aU land is in land-agents jargon, desir-able, just as, conventionally, a naval or militaryofficer is gallant, members of Parliament are honourable, and barristers learned : to
. The North Devon coast. traveller comes isthe wild windy waste of Trentishoe Down andHoldstone Down, considerably over a thousandfeet above the sea, scorching and drouthy insummer and ferociously cold in winter ; but thesedisadvantages, each in its season, have not pre-vented hopeful, would-be sellers of building-sitesfrom erecting the usual notices of this desirable land to be on offer. It has come to this at last,that aU land is in land-agents jargon, desir-able, just as, conventionally, a naval or militaryofficer is gallant, members of Parliament are honourable, and barristers learned : toname but a few of those tags and labels thatnowadays mean so little. 9 66 THE NORTH DEVON COAST Few are those who explore to the right handon this upland, where Trentishoe Barrow seemsto witness that, however ww-desirable the site mayreally be for residences, Prehistoric Man foundit eminently suitable as a burying-place. The Great Hangman, the crowning height of thesecliffs (1187 ft.), obtains its ill-flavoured name from. 5^^^ir^iiim^t;^
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