On the West Lyn (c.1840)
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| Devon | West Country Studies | L SC1549 |
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SC1549
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CD 25 DVD 4
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Moule, Thomas. Moule's English counties: Devonshire. London: G. Virtue; Simpkin and Marshall; Jennings and Chaplin, 1834. No. XLVII. p. 327.The scenery of the little river Lyn is eminently beautiful; the surface of this part of the county is greatly diversified with towering hills, the sides of which are covered with coppice wood. The Lyn rising on Exmoor Forest, after a course of about ten miles, falls into the sea at Lynmouth, in the valley, near this village, and gives name to both places. The stream makes its way over numerous huge rocks with great rapidity, into the Bristol Channel, and a short distance from the sea it forms a fine cascade, over a fall of about fourteen feet, which is particularly beautiful when the river is swelled by rain. This part of the coast may be termed mountainous, abounding in dark cliffs and rocky hollows incessantly following each other, of which the Valley of Stones near this village, a very extraordinary tract of scenery, is a curious specimen. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Lithograph
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240x333mm
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Dates
1840