Identifier: earthitsinhabita481recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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Lyell and other geologists. A mass of chalk and sandstone, resting upon a bed ofsand, had become thoroughly saturated with water. The sand being unable anylonger to support the superincumbent mass, the whole of it slid down upon thebeach, producing a rent 4,000 feet long, 250 feet wide, and 100 to 150 feet deep. Hon if on and Otienj St. Mary, both on the river Otter, and CoUjion, on theriver Axe, are the principal seats for the manufacture of pillow lace. Honiton isnoted for its cleanliness, Ottery St. Mary for its church, which is an imitation ofExeter Cathedral on a reduced scale, and Colyton for its flint-built, slate-coveredhouses. A.rmi)isfer, on a hill overlooking the Axe, has a famous old church, andwas formerly noted for its carpets, but their manufacture has been discontinuedsince 1835. Barnstaple is the principal town in North Devonshire. It lies in a verdantvalley at the head of the estuary of the Taw, has ship-yards, potteries, and a few
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DEVONSHIEE. 95 other manufactures, and a port accessible to coasting vessels. It is raucli frequentedby tourists on their way to the delightful watering-places of Ilfracomhe and Lyn-mouth, at the foot of the cliffs and escarpments in which Exmoor Forest terminatestowards the Bristol Channel. South 3IoUon, in the interior of the county, to thesouth-east of Barnstaple, has iron mines. Bideford, on the estuary of the Torridge,which is tributary to that of the Taw, possesses greater facilities for navigation,its quays being accessible to vessels of 500 tons burden. Northam lies to thenorth of it, on the estuary. Westward Ho ! on the open ocean, to the west ofit, is rising into favour as a watering-place. Torrington, where leather gloves aremade, is the only town of any importance on the Torridge above Bideford.

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