WEST DEVONSHIRE. 2$ 



The natives of Devoniliire are moftly 

 of good perfon ; tall, llraight, and well 

 featured- Many of the women are of 

 elegant figure. 



In the habitudes and manners of the 

 middle clafs, we find little which marks 

 the inhabitants of this Weilern extremity 

 of the Ifland, from thofe of the more 

 central parts of it ; except fuch provincial 

 diftineuilhments as are obfervable in almoft 

 every Diftrid: 3 and except what arifes from 

 ^n over-rated eftimate of themfelves. 



This endemial habitude, which is not 

 obvious to Grangers only, but which the 

 Gentlemen of the country, who mix with 

 the world, are the.firfl; to remark, may 

 perhaps be accounted for, without bring- 

 ing any violent charge of perfonal vanity, 

 or want of natural fagacity, againlt the 

 prefcnt inhabitants. 



The coafl of the Engliili Channel, efpeci- 

 ally its more Wcftern pa,rt, was, in much 

 probability, the firft part of the Ifland which 

 was reforted to by civilized Foreigners; 

 and its inhabitants, of courfe, took the lead 

 in the early ftages of civil izatioa, in Eng- 

 land ; 



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