Early Tours in Devon and CornwallRichard Pearse Chope J.G. Commin, 1918 - 339 pages |
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Page 101 - LODOWICK ROWZEE. Harl. Mis. vol. 7, p. 465-6. See his reasons for controverting this opinion. THE journalists of the Grand Duke Cosmo's travels, describing Plymouth, say, " the buildings are antique, according to the English fashion, lofty and narrow, with pointed roofs ; and the fronts may be seen through, owing to the magnitude of the glass windows in each of the different stories."— P.
Page 173 - There is indeed, a very fine stone bridge over the river here, but the passage over it is so narrow, and they are so chary of it, that few carriages go over it; but as the water ebbs quite out of the river every low water, the carts and waggons go over the sand with great ease and safety...
Page 155 - The building of these things, with the addition of ropewalks and mast-yards, etc., as it brought abundance of trades-people and workmen to the place, so they began by little and little to build houses on the lands adjacent, till at length there appeared a very handsome street, spacious and large, and as well inhabited ; and so many houses are since added that it is become a considerable town, and must of consequence in time draw abundance of people from Plymouth itself.
Page 38 - Maws goith up a 2. myles by est north est into the land, and so far it ebbith and flowith, and ther is a mylle dryven with a fresch brook that resortith to the creke. Scant a quarter of a mile from the castel on the same side upper into the land is [a] praty village or fischar toun with a p[ere] cawllid S.
Page 19 - French man by heire generale. This Arundale ys caullid Arundale of Trerise by a difference from Arundale of Lanheron. Trerise is a lordship of his a 3. or 4. miles from Alein Chirch.
Page 226 - ... to sue and be sued only in their own courts, that they may not be drawn from their business, which is highly profitable to the public...
Page 154 - ... necessarily the building of store-houses and warehouses, for the rigging, sails, naval and military stores, &c. of such ships as may be appointed to be laid up there, as now several are, with very handsome houses for the commissioners, clerks, and officers of all kinds usual in the...
Page 124 - They take the ore and pound it in a stamping mill which resembles the paper mills, and when it is as fine as the finest sand — some of which I saw and took — this they fling into a furnace and with it coal to make the fire. So it burns together and makes a violent heat and fierce flame ; the metal by the fire being separated from the coal and its own dross, being very heavy falls down to a trench made to receive it at the furnace hole below. This liquid metal I saw them shovel up with an iron...
Page 300 - His bouse was on fire; it contained his whole property; and when he found it was in vain to attempt saving any thing, he went upon the nearest hill and made a drawing of the conflagration :—an admirable instance of English phlegm!
Page 111 - ... abounds. At first we suffered a good deal of inconvenience, because they had to travel a road full of water, and muddy though not deep. We passed through Honiton, a small but populous village situated in a valley, and having ascended a hill from which we could see the sea we arrived at Axminster. . . . Axminster is a collection of two hundred houses, many of which are made of mud and thatched with straw.