58 THE FERN PARADISE. 



in its full perfection, the enjoyments which are 

 alone to be found where 



u Boon nature scatters, free and wild, 

 Each plant or flower, the mountain's child ! " 



From Totnes to Newton Abbot; then on to 

 Teigngrace and Bovey, and thence away by Lust- 

 leigh, to the borders of Dartmoor and Moreton- 

 hampstead. Following this route, we one day 

 made for the moors, in order to explore the 

 ferny borders of Fingle Bridge, of Lustleigh 

 Cleave, and of Horseman's Steps. It is, indeed, a 

 grand series of views which that route presents ; 

 and a great and glorious wealth of ferns, in vary- 

 ing hues of exquisite green, will reward a careful 

 search. 



The line from Totnes to Newton runs through 

 a series of deep cuttings through the hills. Now 

 the high sides of the cuttings shut out the sky : 

 now a tunnel shows that the sudden rise in the 

 hills, which lay in the path of the railway, had 

 made an open cutting impossible. As we are 

 about to emerge from the darkness of the tunnel, 

 we may see under the moist shadow of the arch 



