S O.U T H HAMS. 277 



GENERAL VIEW 



O F 



THIS DISTRICT. 



I. SITUATION. The South Hams 

 form the Southernmoft point of the Depart- 

 ment of Country, which is the fubjeft of 

 the prefent Volumes. Its natural 

 BOUNDARIES areDartmore andtheHeights 

 of Chudleigh, on the North -, Plymouth 

 Sound, on the Weft ; and Torbay, on the 

 Eaft ;— the Englifh Channel fheathing its 

 Southern point ;— its outline, or figure, 

 being nearly triangular. 



II. EXTENT. Eftimating the bafe of 

 the triangle at thirty miles, and its perpen- 

 dicular at fifteen miles, we have an area of 

 two hundred and twenty five miles ; but 

 if we include the rich valley of the Dart, 

 T 3 which 



