From Chedly to Ashburton is 11 mile more, in all 20 mile from Exeter, the Roads being much the same as before. This Ashburton is a poor Little town—bad was the best Inn. Its a market town and here are a Great many descenters and those of the most Considerable persons in the town; there was a presbiterian, an anabaptist, and quakers meeteing. Thence I went for Plymouth 24 long miles, and here the Roades Contract and y^e Lanes are exceeding narrow and so Cover’d up you Can see Little about; an army Might be marching undiscover’d by any body, for when you are on those heights that shews a vast Country about you Cannot see one Road. The wayes now become so difficult y^t one Could scarcely pass by Each other, Even y^e single horses, and so Dirty in many places, and just a track for one horses feete, and the Banks on Either side so neer, and were they not well secured and mended w^{th} stones stuck Close Like a Drye wall Everywhere when they discover the Bancks to Breake and molder down, which Else would be in Danger of swallowing up the way quite; for on these bancks (w^{ch} are some of them naturall Rocks and quarrys, others mended w^{th} such stone or slate stuck Edgewayes to secure them) for the quicksetts and trees that grow on these Bancks Loosen the mold and so makes it molder downe sometymes. I pass’d through severall Little places and over some stone Bridges. Y^e waters are pretty broad soe these are 4 or 5 arches most Bridges, all stone. The running of y^e waters is w^{th} a huge Rushing by reason of y^e stones w^{ch} Lye in the water, some of them Great rocks w^{ch} gives some Interruption to y^e Current w^{ch} finding another way Either by its sides or mounting over part of it Causes y^e frothing of y^e water and y^e noise—the rivers being full of stones bigger or Less. About 4 or 5 mile from ashburton I Came to a Little place Called Dean and at y^e End of it ascended a very steep hill, all rock almost; and so it was Like so many steps up, this is Called Dean Clapperhill, it was an untoward place but not soe fformidable to me as the people of y^e place where I Lay described it, haveing gone much worse hills in the North. All along on the road where the Lanes are a Little broader you ride by rowes of trees on Each side, set and kept Exactly Even and Cut, y^e tops being for shade and beauty and they in exact forme as if a Grove to some house. At first I thought it was neer some houses till the frequency and Length proved the Contrary, for there are very few if any houses neare the Road, unless the Little villages you passe through. This Country being almost full of stone the streetes and roades too have a naturall sort of paveing or Pitching tho’ uneven. All their Carriages are here on y^e Backs of horses, w^{th} sort of hookes Like yoakes stands upon Each side of a good height, w^{ch} are the Receptacles of their goods Either wood, ffurse or Lime or Coale or Corn or hay or straw or what Else they Convey