. The North Devon coast. Furthermore : Paid for a hilt and handle and a scabert for asworde, and for mendinge a dagger of the churche,iis. Roger Syncocke is down for one penny, formending a churche pike. Altogether, this seemsa cheap lot for these bloody-minded Hartlanders ;but a further entry of six pounds ten shillings, for arms, seems to indicate that they werereally dangerous people, best left alone. And thatappears to have been the general healthy impres-sion ; for we do not read anywhere of battle,murder, and sudden death in these purlieus. Ifyou would have peace prepare for war, was HAR
. The North Devon coast. Furthermore : Paid for a hilt and handle and a scabert for asworde, and for mendinge a dagger of the churche,iis. Roger Syncocke is down for one penny, formending a churche pike. Altogether, this seemsa cheap lot for these bloody-minded Hartlanders ;but a further entry of six pounds ten shillings, for arms, seems to indicate that they werereally dangerous people, best left alone. And thatappears to have been the general healthy impres-sion ; for we do not read anywhere of battle,murder, and sudden death in these purlieus. Ifyou would have peace prepare for war, was HARTLAND QUAY 237 doubtless the axiom acted upon here ; and thetruth of it was duly proven. Hartland Quay, half a mile down the road, isan example of the overweening confidence of manin his ability to battle successfully with the forcesof nature. You see, as you come down the roadover the down, a tumultuous ocean, no longer theBristol Channel, sometimes dun-coloured with theoutpourings of the Severn, and not, except under. HARTLAND QUAY. extreme provocation, to be stirred to great waves,but the Atlantic Ocean itself, dark blue with greatcrested waves rolling inshore, whether it be calmweather or boisterous. Only, in the last case, thealways majestic sight becomes not a little terrify-ing here. Where the down curves to the sea and the roaddips steeply, in a hairpin corner, a rugged point,all bristling with black, jagged rocks, runs out,and in between them is a little flat space—theQuay. On one side is an isolated conical hill,capped with a flagstaff, and on the other a formid-able reef, black as ink, with the rock-strata tippedperpendicularly in some convulsion that attended 238 THE NORTH DEVON COAST the worlds birth. Between these extremes hesthe opening for the entrance of small craft, and asorry haven it must be for any distressed marinerin severe weather. The place is lonely, save forthe Hartland Quay Hotel and a few coast-guard cottages ; and the stone pier built out tosea,
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