. The North Devon coast. s the lighted hotels down in the huddled littlestreet look for all the world like stage-hotels—abodes of splendour and gilded vice, whence pre-sently there should issue some splendid creature ofinfamy, to plot with another villain, already wait-ing in his trysting-place, the destruction of heroand heroine. But, lest I be misunderstood, Ihasten to add that all these expectations are vainthings, and that villains really require a muchfaster place than Lynmouth. I have spoken already about the fishermen of Lynmouth, but, truth to tell, that is but a con-ventional term, fo
. The North Devon coast. s the lighted hotels down in the huddled littlestreet look for all the world like stage-hotels—abodes of splendour and gilded vice, whence pre-sently there should issue some splendid creature ofinfamy, to plot with another villain, already wait-ing in his trysting-place, the destruction of heroand heroine. But, lest I be misunderstood, Ihasten to add that all these expectations are vainthings, and that villains really require a muchfaster place than Lynmouth. I have spoken already about the fishermen of Lynmouth, but, truth to tell, that is but a con-ventional term, for sea-fishing here is not the in-dustry it is on most coasts, and the jerseyed LYNMOUTH 17 persons who loll about the harbour are more usedto taking out and landing steamboat excursionists,or accompanying amateur fishermen with lines onpleasant days, than to enduring the rigours thetrawler knows. Rock Whiting, Bass, and GreyMullet give the chief sport in the sea, and in theLyn are salmon, salmon-peel, and trout, as you. LYNDALE BRIDGE. may readily beheve by examining the trophies ofsport wdth rod and Hue treasured by Mr. CecilBevan, of the Lyn Valley Hotel. There was formerly, indeed, a herring fisheryat Lynmouth. Westcote speaks of it as existingin the time of Queen Elizabeth. God, says he, hath plentifully stored with herrings, the kingof fishes, which shunning their ancient places ofrepair in Ireland, come hither abundantly in shoals, 3 i8 THE NORTH DEVON COAST offering themselves, as I may say, to the fishersnets, who soon resorted hither witli divers mer-chants, and so for five or six years continued, tothe great benefit and good of the country, untilthe parson vexed the poor fishermen for extra-ordinary unusual tithes, and then, as the inhabi-tants report, the fish suddenly clean left the were not friends of the Establishment. Butafter a while some returned, and from 1787 to 1797there was such an extraordinary abundance thatthe greater part of the catch could
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