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SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



BIEDS AT LYNMOUTH. 



By Thomas H. Mead-Briggs, M.A., F.E.S. 



THE village of Lyn mouth, in North Devon, lies 

 at the mouth of the two small rivers, the 

 East and West Lyn, that meet there near the sea. 

 It is from this circumstance that the place receives 

 its name. Lvnmouth is situated in Latitude 



Lynmouth. The hills are higher inland than on 

 the coast. Hollardy Hill, behind Lynton, rises to 

 nearly 800 feet, looking down upon that place 

 more than 300 feet below its summit. Summer 

 House Hill, formerly called Lyn Cliff, is situated 



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Haunt of the Wateu-Otzkls, East Lyn. 



[John T. Carrington. 



51° 13-50' N.. and Longitude 5° 49-40' W., and is 

 on the south coast of the Bristol Channel, nearly 

 opposite to Swansea, on the Welsh coast, from 

 which it is distant about thirty miles. Our village 

 is surrounded by high hills, only broken by the 

 valleys of the two rivers. The adjoining village 

 of Lynton lies in a hollow, about 450 feet above 

 Jl-nk, 1900— Xo. 73. Vol. VII. 



between the two valleys of the Lyn, reaches to quite 

 that altitude, and is our highest hill. There is. 

 however, a hill on the east side of the village of 

 Countisbury, distant about two miles from this 

 place, that rises to 1,125 feet above the sea. into 

 which a portion juts, forming a bold headland. 

 Chapman Burrows, live miles inland, reaches an 



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