From Paddington to Penzance: The record of a summer tramp from London to the Land's EndHarper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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From Paddington to Penzance: The record of a summer tramp from London to the Land's End
Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
England -- Description and travel
Torquay--Still growing--The Witchery of Tor Bay Scenery--
Charter Day--Napoleon on board the “Billy Ruffian” 140–144
XL.
Teutonic Paignton--Thoughts on German Bands--The Present
Author loves a Comely Falsehood, but destroys a Lying
Tradition-- Berry Pomeroy and the Seymours 144–149
XLI.
Totnes--Brutus the Trojan--“Oliver, by the Grace of God”--To
Dartmouth 149–153
XLII.
Down the Dart--Nautical Terms 153–154
XLIII.
Dartmouth--Castles of Dartmouth and Kingswear--Fighting the
Foreigner--An Unrestored Church--Paternal Government 154–159
XLIV.
Dittisham and the Dart--Tea at Dittisham, and so “Home” 159–162
XLV.
Stoke Fleming--A Country Coach--Slapton Sands--To Kingsbridge 163–165
XLVI.
Kingsbridge--Its one Literary Celebrity--“Peter Pindar” upon
his Barn--Kingsbridge Grammar School 165–171
XLVII.
Salcombe River--Voyage to Salcombe--Hotel hunting--Salcombe
Shops--The Castle 171–176
XLVIII.
Voyage to Plymouth--The Tourists are Extremely Ill--Land at
last--The Hoe and its Memorials--Politics and Patriotism--
The Hamoaze--Saltash 176–183
XLIX.
An Old Author on the Characteristics of Cornwall--Saint
Budeaux--The Three Towns--Stained Glass extraordinary 184–187
L.
Antony--Richard Carew: a Seventeenth Century Poet--The
Tourists are entreated despitefully, and quarrel 187–190
LI.
Carew’s Epitaph at Antony--Downderry 191–192
LII.
A Lovely Valley, a Moorland Stream, and what befell there 193–195
LIII.
Looe--Stage-like Picturesqueness--Hotel Visitors’ Books 195–201
LIV.
Talland--Humorous Memorials of the Dead--Epitaph on a
Smuggler--“John Bevyll of Kyllygath”--A Notable
Devil-queller 201–207
LV.
The Road to Polperro--The “Three Pilchards” Inn--Saturday Night
at Polperro--John Wesley’s Experiences of that Place 207–213
LVI.
Lanteglos-juxta-Fowey--A Cornish Cross--Polruan--Again the
Comic Song!--Fowey--Tourists’ Lumber 214–218
LVII.
Par: a Cornish Seaport 219–220
LVIII.
An Old-time Adventure--Deserted Mining Fields--Saint Austell 220–225
LIX.
By Carrier’s Cart to Mevagissey--John Taylor, the “Water
Poet,” on his Adventure there--Exceptional Britons 225–228
LX.
Mevagissey--Gorran Haven--The Inhospitable Hamlet of Saint
Michael Caerhayes--In the Dark to Veryan--Hospitality of
the Village Inn 228–234
LXI.
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