Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE SOUTH DEVON COAST WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR =The Portsmouth Road=, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old. =The Dover Road=: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike. =The Bath Road=: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway. =The Exeter Road=: The Story of the West of England Highway. =The Great North Road=: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols. =The Norwich Road=: An East Anglian Highway. =The Holyhead Road=: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols. =The Cambridge, Ely, and King’s Lynn Road=: The Great Fenland Highway. =The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road=: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike. =The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road=: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols. =The Brighton Road=: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway. =The Hastings Road= and the “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.” =Cycle Rides Round London.= =A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.= =Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore.= Two Vols. =The Ingoldsby Country=: Literary Landmarks of “The Ingoldsby Legends.” =The Hardy Country=: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels. =The Dorset Coast.= =The Old Inns of Old England.= Two Vols. =Love in the Harbour=: A Longshore Comedy. =The Manchester and Glasgow Road.= Two Vols. [_In the Press._ [Illustration: _Frontispiece_] THE MEWSTONE. [_After J. M. W. Turner_] THE SOUTH DEVON COAST BY CHARLES G. HARPER “_Devonshire is the country of red earth, ruddy apples, rosy cheeks, and honest men._” RALEIGH. [Illustration] LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD. 1907 PRINTED AND BOUND BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD, LONDON AND AYLESBURY. CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY 1 CHAPTER II ROUSDON—THE DOWLANDS LANDSLIP 4 CHAPTER III SEATON 14 CHAPTER IV JACK RATTENBURY, SMUGGLER—BEER 23 CHAPTER V