ANCIENT CASTLES OF DEVON. 133 



or followed more devotedly as disciples of their 

 great Master, than those who from the beginning 

 had traced his course — the aged philosopher and 

 his beloved child. 



Note. — (In all ages and countries, men have arisen, whose 

 minds, superior to their fellow mortals, perceived the first dawn- 

 ings of truth, and rejoiced in its fuller developement. Not only 

 in Israel, but in Europe, America, and even in benighted India, 

 Heaven has raised its agents to sound tlie depths of falsehood 

 and superstition, and make manifest the unsullied brightness of 

 {hat pearl of great price. Ignorant creatures have too often 

 placed obstructions in their way, but God lias favored, and wiil 

 for ever favor their glorious exertions.) 



R. P. E. 



Farkxvood. 



THE ANTIQUARIAN, No. II. 

 ANCIENT CASTLES OF DEVON. 



*"*• Antlquam exquirite matrem.'" — V^ikgil. 



The primary design of this essay is to delineate the 

 remains of Art. In a secondary view, occasional 

 notice will be taken of the distmguishing features 

 impressed by nature on the character of our local 

 scenery. The ruins of the tottering pile will appear 

 contrasted with the ever-during hills and cloud- 

 capped tors which present themselves in many parts 

 of this county. 



For the minute detail, that is requisite in the com- 

 position of the treatise, the subject itself supplies an 

 apology, which may likewise extend to vindicate 

 the honest claim of the author, to the benefit of the 

 axiom, *^ that the mind of man is more cheered and 

 refreshed by advancing in small things, than by 

 standing still in great ones." In the words of the 

 wise, " as in a race, it is not the large stride, or high 

 lift of the ieet, but the low and even motion of them 



