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other manufactures, and a port accessible to coasting vessels. It is raucli frequented 

 by tourists on their way to the delightful watering-places of Ilfracomhe and Lyn- 

 mouth, at the foot of the cliffs and escarpments in which Exmoor Forest terminates 

 towards the Bristol Channel. South 3IoUon, in the interior of the county, to the 

 south-east of Barnstaple, has iron mines. Bideford, on the estuary of the Torridge, 

 which is tributary to that of the Taw, possesses greater facilities for navigation, 

 its quays being accessible to vessels of 500 tons burden. Northam lies to the 

 north of it, on the estuary. Westward Ho ! on the open ocean, to the west of 

 it, is rising into favour as a watering-place. Torrington, where leather gloves are 

 made, is the only town of any importance on the Torridge above Bideford. 



