SALCOMBE. 



CHAPTER X£ IX. 



" Silvery bays 

 Are seen, where commerce lifts the peaceful sail ; 



The indented coast 

 Frowns with wave-breasting rocks, and cliffs high crowned, 

 And flags that wave in the fresh ocean gale." 



Cwrrington. 



In Leland's Itinerary (temp. Hen. VII.) Salcombe is thus 

 described : — " Saultcombe Haven sumwhat barrid, and having 

 a Rok at the entering into it, is about a vij miles by West 

 South West from Dertmouth ; and aboute half a mile within 

 the mouth of this Haven, longing to the Privileges of Dert- 

 mouth, is Saultcombe, a fishar towne and a three miles upper 

 at this Haven Hedde is Kingesbridg, sumtyme a praty 

 Town. The Est Point of Saultcombe Haven is a great 

 Foreland into the Se, caulled the Sterte." 



Salcombe is a port under Dartmouth, and the out-port of 

 Kingsbridge. Foreign vessels sometimes land their mails 

 here, when prevented by stress of weather from proceeding 

 to their usual ports. It is often used as a harbour of refuge, 

 and has safe anchorage for about two hundred ships. 



Hawkins thus describes the situation of this place : — 

 " Salcombe lies between those two well-known points of land, 

 the Prawle and the Bolt Head, the former on the oriental, 



