. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot. forLynton. I was the only passenger. Itwas a grand drive of three hoursup the valley of Yeo, over the thousand-feet-high spurs ofExmoor, and down the valley of West Lyn, wild withcoppice wood and a brawling stream. The hotel overhangsthe sea at the height of 300 to 400 feet, the shore being veryhigh in both directions. After supper I went down the said400 feet by a twisting path through the woods of the
. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot. forLynton. I was the only passenger. Itwas a grand drive of three hoursup the valley of Yeo, over the thousand-feet-high spurs ofExmoor, and down the valley of West Lyn, wild withcoppice wood and a brawling stream. The hotel overhangsthe sea at the height of 300 to 400 feet, the shore being veryhigh in both directions. After supper I went down the said400 feet by a twisting path through the woods of the cliffsideto Lynmouth — an ecstatic spot. There are three high, steep,wild hills; the two Lyns pour swiftly down leafy combesbetween these hills, and meet just above a boulder beach onthe seashore. A tiny village is crowded about this meeting ;and below are a bit of stone pier and a smack or two. Thursday, July 1st. I walked along the shore path west-ward, the path being about 450 feet above the sea, on thesteep slope of a mountain which rises as much again above slope is now and then broken into rock; but generally itis covered with Bracken, Heather, yellow-blooming Lotus, and. 148 LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. ENGLAND [1886 grass. After a mile of this I arrived at a region of high pin-nacle rocks, commanding charming views westward along thehigh and varied coast, and inland up a treeless valley of the rocks I found a sort of low Blueberry, Thyme, ablue Scabious, a thriving and blooming Cotyledon; and ofshrubs only Privet, Thorn, and Furze. After lunch I strolleddown shady paths — the vegetation most luxuriant, the wallswondrously clothed — into little Lynmouth, and out on thepier to see how it looks at low water. Then I went inland bya footpath, up the bank of the stream of East Lyn. Therewas the solitude of a narrow, deep, mountain valley, a rushingstream, Oak woods, rocks, and bits of cliffs, Ferns, and muchfine detail of stream-side planting. I came to
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