Milford waterfalls, Hartland ([1856])

M. Hanhart
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Devon West Country Studies sDEV/1863/TUG
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SC1142
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[1856]
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Tugwell, George, M.A., Oxon. The North-Devon scenery-book. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; Ilfracombe: J. Banfield, 1863. (2nd edn.) Ch. XXI. pp. 262 - 263.Then, for the day is now waning, I walk rapidly down Hartland Quay: […].Beyond again, to the westward, we ramble on over the cliffs whose every turn and angle makes one lament that more time had not been given to this district, which is by far the most striking and picturesque part of the North of Devon.Here is Catharine Torr, a huge rounded hill cut in two by the encroaching ocean, as by a giant's sword: and here I am standing once more on the rocky beach at the crowning point of my westward rambles-for here are Milford Waterfalls.A moorland stream has forced its way through the heart of these iron cliffs: first it makes a sheer leap of a hundred feet down a black rock into a black and whirling pit, now it rushes downwards through the murky ravine with another mighty fall, and still another, and then there is a dark pool at the base of the contorted scarp into which the crested breakers of the spring flood are dashing with a wild and angry roar.We hasten homewards by the light of the cloudy moon as best we may, and I resolve that my next Devonshire holiday shall be devoted to Hartland country only.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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1856