Views of and about Dartmouth. (4) The Start Point (1829)
George Rowe
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | Portfolio 8 |
Illustration Reference
SC0463
Location
CD 9 DVD 2
Publication Details
Scope and Content
Page, John Lloyd Warden. The coasts of Devon and Lundy Island. London: Horace Cox, 1895. p. 327.This is no place for a sermon on national negligence; but I may perhaps ask when will England wake up to the knowledge that her want of coast communication is a crying disgrace, and that annually - nay, monthly - valuable lives are lost and valuable property cast away while legislators wrangle over measures the consideration of which might well be postponed to a more convenient season? How many more ships will be allowed to founder off the Start, off Morte, off half a dozen other headlands in Devon alone, before some one arises to plead successfully the cause of our sailors and "teach our senators wisdom?"**Coastwise communication has now been established. "Out of evil has come forth good." But it needed the blizzard of 1891 to bring the authorities to the point.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Lithograph
Dimensions
75x121mm
Note
On one sheet with SC0460, SC0461 & SC0462
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Dates
1829