5 § 
THE FERN PARADISE. 
in its full perfection, the enjoyments which are 
alone to be found where — 
u Boon nature scatters, free and wild, 
Each plant or flower, the mountain’s child ! ” 
From Totnes to Newton Abbot; then on to 
Teigngrace and Bovey, and thence away by Lust- 
leigh, to the borders of Dartmoor and Moreton- 
hampstead. Following this route, we one day 
made for the moors, in order to explore the 
ferny borders of Fingle Bridge, of Lustleigh 
Cleave, and of Horseman’s Steps. It is, indeed, a 
grand series of views which that route presents ; 
and a great and glorious wealth of ferns, in vary- 
ing hues of exquisite green, will reward a careful 
search. 
The line from Totnes to Newton runs through 
a series 'of deep cuttings through the hills. Now 
the high sides of the cuttings shut out the sky : 
now a tunnel shows that the sudden rise in the 
hills, which lay in the path of the railway, had 
made an open cutting impossible. As we are 
about to emerge from the darkness of the tunnel, 
we may see under the moist shadow of the arch 
