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including among other interesting scenes for the lover 

 of nature, Tor Abbey, Babbicombe, the banks of the 

 Dart and Teign, Berry Pomeroy Castle, Holne Chase, 

 Buckfast Abbey, Dartmoor, &c. ; the fifth part consists 

 of Parochial history and antiquities, British, Roman, 

 Danish and Saxon, to this part is appended a list of the 

 Armorial bearings of families and institutions noticed 

 in the work ; the sixth and last part consists of the 

 biography of eminent natives, amongst these worthies 

 will be found, Guyde Bryan, standard bearer to Edward 

 the I. at the battle of Calais ; Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the 

 first coloniser of Newfoundland ; Newcomen, the 

 improver of the steam engine ; Lethbridge, inventor of 

 the diving bell ; Drs. Huxham, Kennicot and Furneux 

 and also Lye the celebrated Saxon scholar. 



The work is illustrated by numerous lithographs and 

 wood-cuts. We quote the following articles, because 

 they will be read with pleasure on account of the interest 

 connected with them, and further because they afford a 

 fair specimen of the author's style and descriptive pow- 

 ers: 



EXCURSION TO BERRY POMEROY CASTLE. 



" The story of the triumph of time which it has been the duty 

 of this work so often to repeat, (says Mr. Brayley in his illustra- 

 tions of ancient castles,) has seldom been more pathetically ex- 

 emplified than in the relation of the few facts concerning this 

 edifice, Originally built, named and occupied by a family whose 

 nobility was far beyond that of many a peerage, it was retained by 

 it, almost in a direct line, for nearly five centuries ; and then 

 passing, for a very brief period, into the hands of strangers not 

 less illustrious, it flourished for a while with new splendour, but 

 ultimately fell into an untimely and permanent decay. 



This venerable relic is situated in the hundred of Haytor, at 

 the distance of about eight miles from Torquay, and one from 

 the parish church of Berry ; it stands upon a lofty limestone rock 

 which rises abruptly, from the east and north, over a small river 

 which flows into the Hemms at Little Hempston. It is impossi- 

 ble to anticipate the feelings of the antiquary when he enters for 

 the first time the mouldering halls of the departed Pomeroys ; nor 

 is it with any common interest that he will survey these emblems 

 of the vain, perishable and transitory works of man. Rich in- 

 deed is the lesson of philosophy which these walls inculcate, and 

 humiliating to human pride and ambition are the thoughts which 



