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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
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far into thesouthernmost portion of Devonshire. Salcombe Regis occupies a magnificentposition near its mouth. Its equable temperature has earned for it the epithet ofthe English Montpelier. Here oranges and lemons ripen in the open air. Rounding Start Point, we reach the estuary of the river Dart, the entrance towhich is commanded by the ancient town of Dartmouth. Its houses rise tier * Œaldi, On Wave Action. Hevue maritime et coloniale, January, 1876. 90 THE BRITISH ISLES. above tier on the hillsides. Dartmouth has a convenient harbour. It was thebirthplace of Newcomen, the improver of the steam-engine. Higher up on theDart rises Tofiics, with the ruins of an ancient castle, and still farther inland isAs/ibiirhn, a mining town, almost in the centre of the cider district of South Hams. Several towns of note are seated upon the shore of Tor Bay. Brixham, on itssouth side, is the principal fishing town of Devonshire, about two hundred trawlers Fiff. 48.—Smeatons Ehuystone Lighthouse.
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belonging to its port. Its harbour is protected by a breakwater. It was herethat William of Orange landed in 1688. Paignton, in the centre of the bay, hasa small harbour. Torquay, on the northern side of the bay, rises in terracesabove the magnificent quay, whilst the surrounding heights are studded withvillas. It is the most important seaside resort on the south coast of Englandto the west of Brighton, its equable climate and the shelter afforded by thesurrounding heights also attracting a large number of persons suffering fromconsumption. The influx of bathers and invjlids has caused the population of

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