

FRAGMENT XXXIV. 



EXTRACTED FROM THE REPORT OF 



ENDSLEIGH 



* 



COTTAGE ON THE BANKS OF THE TAMAR IN DEVONSHIRE 



BY PERMISSION OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. 



SITUATION AND CHARACTER. 





Those who have sailed on this beautiful Rivernear Plymouth and 

 Saltash, will figure to their minds one of those calm sequestered 

 retreats, reflected on the smooth surface of a broad expanse of 



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waters, very different from the River Scenery of Endsleigh : to 

 explain this difference it will be necessary to describe the Tamar. 



There are hardly two things in nature more contrasted, than 

 a River near its source in a mountainous country, and the same 

 River when it becomes navigable, and spreads itself into an 



estuary, like the Tamar at Plymouth, Nothing can 

 delightful to those who have braved the storms of the O 



more 



than to sail between the romantic Banks of the Tamar, 

 echoing rocks often repeat the music, which from 



whose 



boats enlivens its peaceful surface 



a 



Cottag 



the 



Banks of the Tamar will naturally suggest such tranquil Scenery. 

 Very different is that of Endsleigh. Here, Solitude, embosomed 

 in all the sublimity of umbrageous majesty, looks down on the 

 infant River struggling through its rocky channel, and hurrying 



onwards with all th 



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impetuosity of ungoverned youth 



till it 



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