THE SOUTH DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 1st, 1834. 

 No. 21.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. IV. 



THE MEWSTONE. 



Most knowing reader, are you acquainted with 

 Sam Wakeham, Lord oif the Isles, Baron Seul of 

 Mewstone ? If not, go and see him ; his dominion 

 is abundant in Uve stock, and he will not have the 

 slightest objection to sell you a bottle of porter, or 

 brew a cup of tea for your daughters. He will supply 

 you with a couple of dozen eggs, a ham or so, a cask 

 of biscuits, fresh butter, cabbages, leeks, turnips, 

 onions, potatoes and parsley ; rabbits roast, boiled, 

 stewed, hashed, grilled or fried, until you may exclaim 

 " The Lord be praised, I've had enough." So if you 

 be not a man of weighty appetite, you may contrive 

 to make a decent evening meal. 



The Mewstone is about five miles from Plymouth. 

 Any one of the old gentlemen who ply for hire at the 

 Barbican, with shore boats, will convey you thither 

 for a crown, in about three hours and a half. If, 

 however, you can tool a boat yourself, and know any 

 friend who is fond of bending an ashen oar, hire one 

 of Walhs's skiffs for half a day, which will amount 

 to sixpence each : his httle craft, the *^ Belzeebub," 

 has been frequently shoved over to the Mewstone, 

 by two handy amateurs, in from fifty to fifty-three 

 minutes. 



The island is part of the property of C. Calmady, 



Esq. of Langdon ; and, at low water of spring tides, 



a person may walk to it over the rocks from the 



mainland. The most picturesque route, however, is 



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