Waldon Hill, Torquay, Devon, from Cobon Head (1865)

Rock & Company
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Devon West Country Studies S SC3300
Devon TOR I/S
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SC3300
Location
CD 49 DVD 7
Publication Details
Date
1865
Publisher
Scope and Content
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.]
Format
Steel l.engr vign
Dimensions
61x90mm
Note
Rock & Co. ; no. 5298. 1 Mar 1865
Aspects
From Cobon Head
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Dates
1865