THE SOUTH DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 1st, 1835. 



No, 30.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. VI. 



THE PERAMBULATOR, No. XIL 



THE BEAR'S HEAD AND QUEEN ANNE'S 

 BATTERY, PLYMOUTH. 



Whether a circuit in a boat be a perambulation, is 

 a question which we leave to etymologists ; and, in 

 the mean time, employ the word (provisionally, 

 until they shall have supplied us with one more or- 

 thodox), to denominate another of our excursions, 

 for the purpose of consigning to the press the 

 momentos of some of our mouldering antiquities. 



Two of these meet the eye, in passing from Cat 

 Down to the Barbican quay ; known by the names 

 of the Bear's Head, and Queen Anne's Battery. 



The Bear's Head is one of those remarkable for- 

 mations, which attract notice by their difference from 

 the usual characters of the rock they belong to, and 

 their resemblance to some other object of a very 

 dissimilar nature. When we look at the fissures of 

 our Hme rocks, indicative of something like strati- 

 fication, of which the qnarryman takes advantage to 

 direct his blast holes ; of others again crossing 

 these ; and of deep caves perforating the rock in 

 various directions ; we should expect to find pro- 

 jecting angles and edges, and overhanging crags ; 

 but suspended masses, and suspended too upon 

 curve lines, would by no means be looked for. Yet 

 such is the Bear's Head, as our engraving shews. 

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