366 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
The description of Dartmouth in his day is very good: ‘‘ Dart- 
mouth, in the south part of this county, eight miles from Totnes, 
and twenty-six from the city of Exeter, is so called from the river 
on which it stands, which there runneth with full mouth into the 
British ocean. <A large populous town, situate on the §. side of a 
very steep hill, which runneth from E. to W. a considerable length 
of near a mile, whereby the houses as you pass on the water seem 
pensil, and to hang along in rows like gallipots in an apothecary’s 
shop; for so high and steep is it that you go from the lower to the 
higher part thereof by stairs, and from the bottom to the top re- 
quires no less, in some places more, than one hundred. It hath a 
most convenient harbour, able to receive a great navy into its 
bosom, which may ride safe without incommoding one the other, 
load and unload in the midst of the town. The mouth of this 
river, near a mile distant from the town, is well guarded with two 
castles, and other munitions standing on the opposite banks thereof. 
Heretofore was also a chain which reached from one side to the 
other, which in time of war was wont to be set up to prevent any 
invasion of the enemy. This town then began to flourish when 
Totnes Haven, by overmuch sand brought down by the water from 
the tin-works in Dartmoor, was choaked up and spoil’d. Thro’ 
the safety and convenient situation of its port this place became 
much frequented by merchants, and to be well furnished with good 
shipping, and is so still, tho’ short of what it hath been heretofore.” 
Of Greenway, on the Dart, he says: ‘‘ A pleasant and commodious 
seat, standing on the east side of the Dart upon a rising ground, a 
little mile above the town of Dartmouth. It hath a delightful 
prospect of that river, and views the boats and barges as they pass 
and repass upon it. A large scope of lands and the royalty of 
fishing and fowling are belonging to it.” 
Again, of Dartington Hall, then, as now, the seat of an Arthur 
Champernowne, he writes: ‘‘ This is a pleasant and noble seat, 
standing aloft on the west side of the aforementioned river (the 
Dart), having a large and stately pile of buildings, much of the 
figure of a college in one of the Universities, with a fair quad- 
rangle of about an acre of ground in the middle, The hall is very 
spacious, consisting of near 100 foot in length, with proportionable 
height and breadth, round which lieth one of the best bartons, both 
for number of acres and goodness of land, in this county, and is 
now the inheritance of Arthur Champernowne, Esq.” The hall 
