. The North Devon coast. IV5 CLOVELLY, FROM THE HOBBY DRIVE. stoned stairs that form the footpath of Clovellys street, descending hundreds of feet to thebeach, now represent what remained until moderntimes the bed of that streamlet. It poured down 27 210 THE NORTH DEVON COAST here from the chff-top, and the curious overhangingterraces of the New Inn, and most of the cot-tages are survivals of its banks. This stream wasdiverted half a mile to the east, and now flowsthrough the Hobby Drive and over the face ofthe cliff at Freshwater Cascade. The population of Clovelly is almost entirelyseafaring
. The North Devon coast. IV5 CLOVELLY, FROM THE HOBBY DRIVE. stoned stairs that form the footpath of Clovellys street, descending hundreds of feet to thebeach, now represent what remained until moderntimes the bed of that streamlet. It poured down 27 210 THE NORTH DEVON COAST here from the chff-top, and the curious overhangingterraces of the New Inn, and most of the cot-tages are survivals of its banks. This stream wasdiverted half a mile to the east, and now flowsthrough the Hobby Drive and over the face ofthe cliff at Freshwater Cascade. The population of Clovelly is almost entirelyseafaring : or rather, the men are fisherfolk, andthe mens wives have for years past found a secondstring to the domestic bow in letting bedroomsand providing refreshments for visitors ; so thatwhen circumstances forbid the chase of the herringthere is not likely to be that empty cupboard athome, which is apt to vex the lives and haunt theimaginations of the fisherfolk of most other sea-board places. What competition there is in
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