| Author: | Sabine Baring-Gould | ISBN: | 9781465514912 |
| Publisher: | Library of Alexandria | Publication: | March 8, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sabine Baring-Gould |
| ISBN: | 9781465514912 |
| Publisher: | Library of Alexandria |
| Publication: | March 8, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Watershed, Rivers. On the Camel Wadebridge The Inny, one of the feeders of the Tamar and altogether Cornish, must not be omitted, for it is a beautiful stream. It rises in the elevated land by Davidstowe and ripples down near Altarnon, passing in a picturesque valley the Holy Well and chapel of St Clether and the ancestral seat of the Trevelyan family at Basil; then, still in its beautiful valley, past Polyphant, famous for its quarries of a stone that admits of the most delicate carving, until it reaches the Tamar at Innyfoot. It is a river rich in trout. An old Cornish song of the Altarnon volunteer has the verse: O Altarnon! O Altarnon! I ne'er shall see thee more, Nor hear the sweet bells ringing, nor stand in the church door, Nor hear the birds a-whistling, nor in the Inny stream See silver trout glance by me, as thoughts glance by in dream. It is not however the Inny but a tributary that actually passes Altarnon
Watershed, Rivers. On the Camel Wadebridge The Inny, one of the feeders of the Tamar and altogether Cornish, must not be omitted, for it is a beautiful stream. It rises in the elevated land by Davidstowe and ripples down near Altarnon, passing in a picturesque valley the Holy Well and chapel of St Clether and the ancestral seat of the Trevelyan family at Basil; then, still in its beautiful valley, past Polyphant, famous for its quarries of a stone that admits of the most delicate carving, until it reaches the Tamar at Innyfoot. It is a river rich in trout. An old Cornish song of the Altarnon volunteer has the verse: O Altarnon! O Altarnon! I ne'er shall see thee more, Nor hear the sweet bells ringing, nor stand in the church door, Nor hear the birds a-whistling, nor in the Inny stream See silver trout glance by me, as thoughts glance by in dream. It is not however the Inny but a tributary that actually passes Altarnon
