Adventure and adventurers > Black's guide to the counties of Dorset, Devon, & Cornwall

DEVONSHIRE.
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The principal seats are—Castle Hill (Earl Fortescue); Stover
Lodge (Duke of Somerset); Endsleigh. (Duke of Bedford); Sal-
tram (Earl Morley); Mount Edgcumhe (Earl Mount Edgcumbe);
Bagtor (Lord Ashburton); Exeter Palace (Bishop of Exeter);
Bicton (Lady Bolle); Haldon Hall (Sir L. Palk, Bart.); Escott
(Sir J. Kennaway, Bart.)
For election purposes the county is divided into three dis¬
tricts—East, North, and South Devon; each division returning
two members to Parliament.
The COAST of DEVONSHIRE—LYME REGIS to
PLYMOUTH.
I.—LYME REGIS to DAWLISIX
L Seaton, 61 m. ; Sidmouth, 8 m. ; Exmouth, 10J m. ; Topsham (for Exeter), 5 m.;
Exminster, 1 m.; Powderham, 2 m. ; Starcress, 3 m. ; Dawlish, 7 m. = about
43 m.]
Our exploration of the Devonian coast commences with the
pier and harbour of Lyme Cobb. From hence even to Saltash,
where the waters of the Tamar separate it from Cornwall, that
coast is characterised by a grace and a beauty of its own. It
boasts but little of sublimity or savage grandeur; but it exults
in the tranquil loveliness of grassy valleys opening out upon the
oozy shore,—of happy meadows which pass almost imperceptibly
into “ golden sands,”—of quiet sheeny coves lying in the shadow
of fair green hills !
We keep abreast of a wall of cliff—where the chalk rests
upon the greensand, and both are superimposed upon blue lias—
until we approach the mouth of the Axe, which rolls on its way.
into the sea through a hollow, or valley, of red marl. On the
east bank of the river is situated AXMOUTH (population, 66'2.
(s.w.) H