. The earth and its inhabitants ... ers clay andcider, besides granite from the lleytor quarries. Newton Abbot and Woolboroiighlie 5 miles inland, whilst Bovey 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. Dau-Uah, a short distance to the north of Teignmouth, * MacEncry ; Pengelly, Kents Hole ; Boyd Dawkins [Journal of the Geological Society, vol. ). 92 THE BRITISH ISLES. at the foot of steep cliffs, has grown from a small fishing village into a fashion-able watering-place. Ex
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ers clay andcider, besides granite from the lleytor quarries. Newton Abbot and Woolboroiighlie 5 miles inland, whilst Bovey 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. Dau-Uah, a short distance to the north of Teignmouth, * MacEncry ; Pengelly, Kents Hole ; Boyd Dawkins [Journal of the Geological Society, vol. ). 92 THE BRITISH ISLES. at the foot of steep cliffs, 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 situated, and is much resorted to by sea-bathers. Ascending the Exe, wereach Topsham, which has ship yards and rope-walks, and is connected by a shipcanal, 15 feet deep, ^vith 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.—ToK Bay. Scale 1 : 120, Under 5 Fathoms. Over 5 Mile. 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 w^hole district. It is, however, farmore reasonable to suppose that the Exe became silted up through the slow opera-tion of natural ao^encies. 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 Norman castle of Fig. 51.—Exeter and the Estuary of the 1 : 250,000. «f^ -«.^t 0°.
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