THE FERN PAUADISE. 



top; drinking in with that inexpressibly acnte 

 sense of pleasure which the jaded town dweller 

 can alone experience in its full perfection, the 

 enjoyments which are alone to be found where 



* 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 varying 

 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 



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