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some rising from the busy streets of the neighbour- 

 ing sea-port ; others, like Botus Fleming, betraying 

 the only indication of the hamlet, which you are sure 

 is nestling beneath the clustering foliage from which 

 peeps the grey and moss grown tower ; others again, 

 as Maker, Landrake, St. Budeaux, St. Cleer in the 

 western moorlands, and Brentor in the nothern^ 

 planted on the very crests of the surrounding emin- 

 ences. For the casual spectator, such a scene can 

 possess no common interest ; but for one who is ac- 

 quainted with the local history of the district, who 

 knows each " bosky bourne and tangled dell, '' its 

 beauties are enhanced by a thousand associations. 

 The very spot on which I stand offers claims to be 

 respected as the long sought site of Ptolemy's Tamara. 

 Undisputed traces of a Roman road, passing just 

 below and making straight for the ancient trajectus 

 of Esse (Saltash ferry,) carry us back to the days 

 when that imperial people sent forth their legions 

 over roads which reached from the Forum to the 

 boundaries of the known world. Down in that se- 

 cluded village, on the verge of the Tamar, rests the 

 descendant of those who preserved the name long 

 after the majesty of the Caesars had been insulted and 

 trampled down by the once despised barbarian. The 

 tomb of perhaps the last of the Palaeologi will be 

 found in the humble church of Landulph. 



A purple belt of moorland hills bounds the whole 

 scene, and forms that pleasing background to the 

 pictures that Nature paints for us in the west, which 

 those who have been accustomed to hills from infan- 

 cy always pine for amidst the most lavish adornments 

 of richer, but more level districts. But the Dart- 

 moor and Cornish hills possess associated as well as 

 native interest. There rise the tors in rugged majes- 

 ty, each of them telling a tale of the dark Druidical 



Preston Church (Brit. Mag., No I.), that the spire was only used 

 in level districts, I am inclined to believe it will scarcely be sup- 

 ported by more general observation. 



