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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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s odd sometimes to think of somuch that was placidly rural encompass-ing a brilliant winter resort like Torquay,and, indeed, after drifting along amongthe more primitive country villages for afew weeks, the first visit to that gay wa-tering-place had quite a startling effect. Torquay was first brought into noticewhen the Channel fleet used it as an an-chorage, but it had its associations, beingmarked by one of the most decisive epochsin English history. Here landed Williamof Orange in the famous November of1G88. Torquay was only a fishing villagethen, but for one knowing every step of theground it is easy to fancy the Dutch princeriding on past old Tor Abbey—a gray build-ing set among still winter colors awayfrom the beach road—or perhaps Balta-combe way, to Ford House, at whose gatesmany a tou)*ist lingers now. Ford Houseis not exactly what the guide-books call astately pile; it is a fine gray house,well pierced by windoAvs, and Avith a parkwhich always seemed to me to retain the
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WINTER IN DEVONSHIRE. 177 peculiar quality of melancholy with whicheven in the spring-time of flush and colorthe Devon country is ting-ed; and here inthe old house is shown the room in which pression upon English or foreign minds.It remained an obscure villag-e until thedays of the Channel fleet, and then slowlygrew into prominence, its picturesque ter-

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