. The earth and its inhabitants .. . potters clay andcider, besides granite from the Hey tor quarries. Newton Ahhot and Woolhoroughlie 5 miles inland, whilst Borey Tracey, known to geologists for its lignite coalbeds and diggings of potters clay, occupies the centre of a valley which joins thatof the Teign on the east. Daulish, a short distance to the north of Teignmouth, 1869). * MacEnery; Pengelly, Kents Hole; Boyd Dawkins (Journal of the Geological Society, vol. xxv. THE BEITISH ISLES. at the foot of steep cliflfs, has grown from a small fishing village into a fashion-able watering-place. E
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . potters clay andcider, besides granite from the Hey tor quarries. Newton Ahhot and Woolhoroughlie 5 miles inland, whilst Borey Tracey, known to geologists for its lignite coalbeds and diggings of potters clay, occupies the centre of a valley which joins thatof the Teign on the east. Daulish, a short distance to the north of Teignmouth, 1869). * MacEnery; Pengelly, Kents Hole; Boyd Dawkins (Journal of the Geological Society, vol. xxv. THE BEITISH ISLES. at the foot of steep cliflfs, has grown from a small fishing village into a fashion-able watering-place. Exmouth commands the entrance to the estuary of the river Exe. It is charm-ingly situated, and is much resorted to by sea-bathers. Ascending the Exe, wereach Tojjsham, which has ship-yards and rope-walks, and is connected by a shipcanal, 15 feet deep, with the city of Exeter. The Exe is said to have been formerlynavigable for sea-going vessels as far as the quays of Exeter, but the municipality Fig. 50.—Tor Bay. Scale 1 : 120, WoF Gr. Under 5 Fathoms. Over 5 MUe. having offended the neighbouring nobility by forbidding inhabitants of the townto appear in the livery of a lord without previously obtaining the license of themayor and his council, an Earl of Devon had the water dammed above Topsham,and thus caused the river to silt up rapidly. The village of Topsham, whichwas his property, then became the port of the whole district. It is, however, farmore reasonable to suppose that the Exe became silted up through the slow opera-tion of natural agencies. DEVONSHIEE. 93 Exeter is proudly seated upon a steep hill on the left bank of the Exe. Thisancient capital of the West Saxons, whose resistance to the Normans was brokenby the massacre ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085, still possesses severalremarkable mediaeval buildings, including the remains of the Xorman castle of Fig. 51.—Exeter and the Estuary of the Exe. Scale 1 : 250,000.
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