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Title: Lynton and Lynmouth
A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland

Author: John Presland
F. J. Widgery

Release Date: September 25, 2007 [EBook #22765]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: Lee Bay]

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

A PAGEANT OF CLIFF & MOORLAND

BY

JOHN PRESLAND

ILLUSTRATED BY

F. J. WIDGERY

LONDON

CHATTO & WINDUS

MCMXVII

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. DEVONSHIRE
II. SOME LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS
III. BARNSTAPLE
IV. LYNTON
V. LYNTON (_continued_), COUNTISBERRY, AND NORTHWARD
VI. PORLOCK AND EXMOOR
VII. IN SOMERSET
VIII. LUNDY
IX. THE LAST STRONGHOLDS OF TRADITION

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LEE BAY . . . . . . . . . . . . _frontispiece_

BOSSINGTON HILL

DUNKERY BEACON

THE DOONE VALLEY

WOODY BAY AND DUTY POINT, WEST LYNTON

THE SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE: DOONE VALLEY

LYNMOUTH BAY AND FORELAND

THE VALLEY OF ROCKS

HEDDON'S MOUTH, NEAR LYNTON

CASTLE ROCK, LYNTON

DUTY POINT

THE MOORS NEAR BRENDON TWO GATES

HARVEST MOON, EXMOOR

THE DOONE VALLEY IN WINTER

LYNTON: THE DEVIL'S CHEESERING

DUNKERY BEACON FROM HORNER WOODS

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

CHAPTER I

DEVONSHIRE

The original Celtic name for Devonshire, the name used by the Britons
whom Caesar found here when he landed, was probably "Dyfnaint," for a
Latinized form of it, "Dumnonia" or "Damnonia," was used by Diodorus
Siculus when writing of the province of Devon and Cornwall in the third
century A.D. So that the name by which the men of Devon call their
country is the name by which those ancient men called it who erected
the stone menhirs on Dartmoor, and built the great earth-camp of
Clovelly Dykes, or the smaller bold stronghold of Countisbury. At
least, conjecturally this is so, and it is pleasant to believe it, for
it links the Devon of our own day, the Devon of rich valleys and windy
moors, the land of streams and orchards, of bleak, magnificent cliff
and roc