ST. BUDEAUX CHURCH. 147 



The land on the Cornish side spreads out into a 

 map of richly cultivated inclosures, diversified with 

 groves, plantations, cherry and apple orchards, and 

 studded with churches, farms and hamlets. The 

 Devonshire banks are of rather a wilder cast, and 

 more wooded ; but as they rise into uplands, corn- 

 fields and pastures, soon succeed to brake, copse, and 

 dingle. But whilst either bank of the tranquil estu- 

 ary, now sleeping beneath the dappled sky, betokens 

 abundance of all earthly good, and whilst the eye 

 dwells with delight upon this provision for our mortal 

 part, there is not wanting that which may remind the 

 delighted spectator, that beautiful as this " gay and 

 goodly world " may be, this is not his rest. Here 

 and there, and in this part of the country by no 

 means few and far between, rise the village churches, 

 giving animation and interest to the landscape, and 

 lifting the contemplative thought upwards with their 

 " heaven directed '' steeples. These are the appro- 

 priate and seemly embellishments of the landscape 

 in a Christian country. These amidst all the gorgeous 

 splendours of such an evening as this, tend to awaken 

 associations which may raise the soul from transitory 

 things to loftier aspirations, " to the hope full of im- 

 mortality" which belongs only to the faithful in Christ 

 Jesus. Nor will the thoughts which swell the breast 

 of him who has " such hope" easily find language 

 more expressive than that of the lamented prelate of 

 India : — 



" O God ! oh good beyond compare ! 



If thus thy meaner works are fair, 



If thus thy bounties gild the span 



Of ruin'd earth and sinful man ; 



How glorious must the mansion be, 



Where thy redeemed shall dwell with thee ! '' 

 Bishop Heber. 



Seventeen of these steeples,^ of every form and 

 size, maybe counted from the ridge already described ; 



* Being for the most part without spires, these steeples rather 

 favour the ingenious supposition advanced in the account of 



