Waldon Hill, Torquay, Devon, from Cobon Head (1865)
Rock & CompanyRepository | Library | Shelf |
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Devon | West Country Studies | S SC3300 |
Devon | TOR | I/S |
SC3300
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Publication Details
Cockrem's tourists' guide to Torquay and its neighbourhood. Torquay: Westley & Co.'s Library (late Cockrem), 1878. p. 55.The special geographical advantages which Torquay possesses are principally these: - 1. The line of coast from Exmouth to Start Point runs nearly north and south, hence the east wind, ordinarily the hottest in summer and coldest in winter, is tempered in both extremes, by passing down the whole length of the Channel, the surface water of which is seldom within twenty degrees of the maximum and minimum of the air. 2. The parching east winds in spring are moistened by the warm sea, which, on the other hand, acts as a condenser in summer, its temperature being often below the dew-point of the air. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Rock & Co. ; no. 5298. 1 Mar 1865
From Cobon Head
1865