From Tor Abbey Sands, looking towards Bury Head ([1845?])
William Spreat
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| Devon | West Country Studies | M SC3179 |
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SC3179
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Date
[1845?]
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Carrington, N.T., and others. The Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay guide. Teignmouth: E. Croydon, 1829. pp. 96-7.Such as are incapable of much bodily exertion, and desire to inhale the pure sea breezes without fatigue, may find a variety of pleasure yachts at hand; and no place affords greater facilities for water excursions than Torquay. An invalid is not exposed to the surf when going on board or landing, or compelled to ascend the sides of an unsteady boat, but may with perfect ease and dry feet step in and out as from one room into another. And, while sailing about, he feels secure from severe winds which are fenced out by the lofty capes on each side. To wind up our remarks, we shall conclude with a high medical authority, that the wide world of waters - the scenery of the shores, wooded, broken, with its lawns of sand in one place, in another its caverns, which the imagination of the ancients would have peopled with nymphs - the diversity of the surface of the ocean, now smooth and shining, anon rugged and foaming, - all this variety, which, as it gives the visitor moderate pleasure, may help to give health - perhaps render the coast preferable to an inland situation.[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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129x232mm
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1845