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PEENT COMBES. 
crossing the stream just above the fall, proceed 
along a grassy glen, where the round-leaved sun- 
dew, the bog pimpernel, and the pale Cornish 
butterwort grow in profusion, and come out upon 
“the Common,” where the ravens build, and teach 
their young to fly, and the goats bound away be- 
fore you, or reaching some place of safety on the 
cliffs, stand stamping with anger at your intrusion. 
Por two or three miles the road lies over short 
turf, starred with the centauries ; and few who 
have not travelled this road can fully appreciate 
beautiful Devon. 
The great extent of turf, now so rarely found, 
the noble cliffs, the wondrously indented and diver- 
sified shore, with the blue Atlantic close beneath 
you, are unrivalled ; nor will the lover of beautiful 
scenery think lightly of the Valley and Mouth of 
Welcombe or the Glen of Marsland, whose wind- 
ing stream, filled with small but excellent trout, 
separates the counties of Devon and Cornwall. 
Ah ! truly it is all very wild and very lovely, and 
also very beautiful; and every day spent in that 
bright clear air, and amid those glorious scenes, 
does one good mentally and bodily. 
