A maiden pure, lo! here I stand, Neither on sea, nor yet on land; Angels watch me on either hand. If you be landsman, come down the strand; If you be sailor, come up the sand; If you be angel, come from the sky, Look in my glass, and pass me by. Look in my glass, and go from the shore; Leave me, but love me for evermore. It was with a not unnatural superstitious fear, under these magical moonlit circumstances that, even as she was gazing into the mirror and repeating those lines, hurried footsteps were heard descending to the Mouth. They were not, however, angelic or demoniac apparitions nor even earthly lovers: merely fugitive Jesuits and traitors. It is sad to find this scene overlooked by those hideous stuccoed houses on the ridge, but, at any rate, as I straddle the little summer-time trickle of the stream in the bottom, dividing Devon and Cornwall, I cannot but admire the fine note of picturesqueness and high romance on which this coast-line ends. [Illustration: AT MARSLAND MOUTH.] INDEX Abbotsham, 205 Appledore, 86, 140, 170, 174, 197, 200 Armada guns, 189 _Artavia_, Barnstaple, 208 Baggy Point, 140 Barle, River, 5 Barley Bay, 227 Barnstaple, 27, 29, 30, 86, 113, 115, 154–72, 208 Barricane Beach, 138 Barum, _i.e._ Barnstaple, 161 Benson, Thomas, 115 Berrynarbor, 77, 95, 128–30 Bickington, 174 Bideford, 86, 115, 170, 173, 176–97, 205 ---- and Westward Ho! Railway, 197 Black Church Rock, 226 ---- Mouth, 228 Blackstone Point, 68 Bloody Corner, 199 “Blue Ball” inn, Countisbury, 36 Bone Hill, 198 Bonhill Top, 52 Brannock, Saint, 141, 142, 144, 145 Braunton, 142, 144–9, 194 ---- Burrows, 2, 143, 149–54, 198 Brendon Two Gates, 6 Briary Caves, 80 Bridge Ball, 6, 31 Buck’s Cross, 206 ---- Mill, 206 Bull Point, 132 Burrow Nose, 80 Caen, River, 149 Capern, Edward, 193–6 Capstone Hill, 84, 92, 97 ---- Parade, 85, 94, 97 Cary family, 211 Castle Rock, 45, 50, 51 Catherine Tor, 238 Chain Beach, 85 Chambercombe, 97, 123–8 Champernowne family, 89, 128 “Chanter’s Folly,” 175 Chapman Barrows, 5 _Clausa Vallis_, (?) Clovelly, 208 Cliff Railway, Lynmouth, 22–40 Clovelly, 2, 90, 99, 100, 113, 190, 205–26 Combemartin, 68, 69, 71–80, 88, 95 Compass Hill, 84 Countisbury, 28, 31, 35, 36 ---- Foreland, 37–45 “Cow and Calf” Rocks, 227 Crock Point, 52 Croyde, 141 “Cruel Coppinger,” 239 Damehole Point, 228 “Devil’s Cheese-wring,” 50 “---- Chimney,” 121 “---- Limekiln,” 120 “Duty Point,” 26, 45 East-the-Water, 176, 189 Eldern Point, 227 Exe Head, 5 Exmansworthy Cliff, 226 Exmoor, 4 Faggus, Tom, 158 Fairy Cross, 206 Farley, 31, 32 ---- Water, 6 Fatacott Cliff, 226 Fremington, 28, 174 Freshwater Cascade, 210 Gallantry Bower, 224 Georgeham, 140 Glen Lyn, 15 Glenthorne, 2, 35, 38, 39, 41, 42