SOUTH HAMS. ??9 



But in croffing the country, the Traveller 

 finds endlefs difficulties, arifing from the 

 great inequalities of furface. It is billowy 

 in the extreme. Some of the fwells are 

 nearly femiglobular. The South Hams are 

 the Stroudwater Hills of Gloceflerfhire, 

 without wood, — or the moil- billowy paf- 

 fages of the Chalk Hills of Kent or Surrey, 

 interfedled with hedges. Round Totnefs, 

 the ground is mofl ftrongly featured ; being 

 there divided by deep rivered vallies 3 and 

 between this and the feet of the hills, a 

 limilar flyle of ridge and valley is obferved; 

 correfponding with that of the more Wef- 

 tern Diftrid:. 



V. WATERS. The Hills of the South 

 Hams, as thofe of Well Devonfliire, are 

 well watered. Springs are feen to pour 

 forth their limpid rills from the 'fides of the 

 fwells, and frequently from near their fum- 

 mits. The waters from thefe fprings col- 

 left in the vallies, and form rivulets and 

 minor rivers ; five or fix of which have 

 their efluaries, advancing fome miles within 

 the area of the Difi:ri(ft. 



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