Ivy Bridge, near Plymouth (1780)
F. Chesham
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | M SC1361 |
| Devon | PLY | I/S |
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SC1361
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CD22 DVD 4
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Scope and Content
Maton, W. G. Observations relative chiefly to the natural history, picturesque scenery and antiquities of the western counties of England. Salisbury and London: J.Easton, 1797. p. 128.IVY-BRIDGE is a small groupe of houses delightfully situated on the banks of the river Arme, [Erme] which rushes with a load roar over a bed of rocks ; - after a rainy season it forms quite a torrent, and brings down from the hills fragments of granite. Large blocks of this substance indeed lie by the road-side, but no regular stratum of it is discoverable, nor of bluish rock that lies scattered in detached masses like the granite, though both might probably be traced up to the mountains of Dartmoor. It is there that the Arme takes its rise. The rocks which constitute its bed seem to have been torn and hurled, as it were, from their original situation by some paroxysm of nature. - Close to the bridge stands one of the most comfortable and elegant inns in the west of England, and in the gardens belonging to it (which run along one side of the river) the bridge, the high grounds beyond it, the rocks, and the foaming current assume the most picturesque relations.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Copper l.engr
Dimensions
131x183mm
Series
S011. SANDBY, Paul: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SELECT VIEWS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.
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Dates
1780