Valley of Rocks, Linton (c.1845)
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Devon | West Country Studies | O SC1663 |
SC1663
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Publication Details
Walters, W. Ilfracombe: a health resort. Ilfracombe: John Tait, 1878. pp. 57-8. The chief point of interest at Lynton is the celebrated VALLEY OF ROCKS, which may be reached by two routes: one by following the road past the hotel bearing its name, the other by the pathway on the sea front, it being usual for the visitor to go by the one and return by the other. The rock scenery here is indescribable, huge masses of grey stone piled on one another in rugged and confused heaps that are in themselves suggestive of chaos, out of which the fancy can shape for itself a city of ruins, an overthrown temple of Druids, in short, a "wreck of matter and a crash of worlds". [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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1845