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great indeed. There is a heap of old iron weighing several 

 tons, the whole of which has been extracted from the bones by 

 the women. When in Bavaria in 1828, we saw immense quan- 

 tities of human bones in the charnel houses, the sculls having 

 the names which they bore when alive written on their fronts, 

 and being arranged on shelves, and the other bones lying in 

 heaps on the floor. We do not suppose these sculls have been 

 removed ; but it is most probable that the other bones are now 

 manuring the turnip fields of England. 



Tor House ; Captain Foot. The house commands an exten 

 sive prospect, is judiciously entered from the back,, aad is finely 

 adapted for terrace gardens in front. 



Monadon House ; The Rev. John Paulby. An extensive and 

 grand place, with the wood admirably disposed, and with the 

 power of forming a fine lake in the middle distance. The house 

 is entered in front ; but, by terraces and other arrangements, a 

 portico might be added at one side, so as not to show a stranger 

 every beauty before he leaves his carriage, as at present. The 

 doorways and chimney-pieces are mostly of granite, like those of 

 Fleet House. The walls are in some places 8 ft. thick, and up 

 one chimney there is a concealed chamber 6 ft. square, in which 

 a great many old papers and parchments were discovered some 

 years ago, but not till they were so far charred as to be ille- 

 gible. We noted here a fine old tulip tree with a trunk 15 ft. 

 in circumference, and a silver fir of astonishing height, with a 

 trunk about 6 ft. in diameter. 



Pennycross Chapel burying-ground affords a remarkably fine 

 view, as does the village green at St. Bnde, about three, miles from 

 Plymouth ; but, above all, Bickham Hill, the property of Lord 

 Graves. To all these places we were kindly driven by Mr. Pontey. 



Sept. 13. — Mount Edgecumbe ; the Earl of Mount Edge- 

 cumbe. We first walked through the separate gardens and all 

 the scenes through which we could not drive; and next, in con- 

 sequence of permission kindly obtained for us by Mr. Pontey, 

 we drove through every part of the park, so that we had the 

 great satisfaction of seeing Mount Edgecumbe deliberately and 

 thoroughly. High as were our expectations from the published 

 descriptions and the long celebrity of the place, we were not dis- 

 appointed. We never before looked down on the sea, on ship- 

 ping, and on a large town, all at our feet, from such a stupendous 

 height. The effect on the mind is sublime in the highest degree, 

 but yet blended with the beautiful. There was something to us 

 quite unearthly in the feeling it created. The separate gar- 

 dens, as may readily be supposed, are overgrown, and the mag- 

 nolias and other fine trees greatly injured, by the elms and other 

 common trees and shrubs. One garden, in imitation of an 

 ancient Roman burying-ground, which contains a great many 



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