LUNDY ISLAND. [18 miles from Clovelly, where sailing-boats may always be obtained. Acreage, 1950.] A trip to Lundy Island is one of those concessions which Clovelly naturally expects from its visitors, and on a summer day the sail is so pleasant, and the scenery of the lonesome rockbound islet so full of romantic interest, that the custom is by all means to be honoured with due observance. Its length is 23 miles from north to south; its breadth, from east to west, about 11⁄2 mile. The soil is almost wholly devoted to pasturage. On the coast, the more remarkable points are the HEN and CHICKENS reef, north, and the isolated rock of the CONSTABLE; LAMATRY, and RAT ISLAND, south; the Seals, Gannets, and GULL ROCKS, east; and on the west, the savage chasm of the DEVIL'S LIMEKILN, with the rock of the SHUTTER opposite its seaward mouth, as if designed to block it up. The LIGHTHOUSE, on the south coast, erected in 1819, is about 560 feet above the sea-level. A family named Morisco were long the proprietors of this wild demesne, and one of them having plotted against Henry III. fled hither for safety. For some years he and his comrades led a rude buccaneering life, but were eventually captured by the king's cruisers, and duly executed. Edward II. according to a wild tradition, is said to have taken refuge here from the fangs of “the She-Wolf of Anjou,” and her confederates. During the Civil War Lord Saye and Sele occupied it with a small Royalist garrison. It was captured by the French, in the time of William III., by a singular ruse de guerre. A vessel of war, under Dutch colours, hove to in the roadstead, and daily purchased supplies of milk from the islanders for the captain, who was declared to be grievously ill. His malady increased upon him, and at length he died. The crew then requested permission to lay his remains in the churchyard, and the islanders assenting, the coffin was landed and duly conveyed to the church. On pretence that strangers, according to their national customs, were never permitted to witness the rites of sepulture, the islanders were turned out of the sacred building; but to their terrible surprise, in a few moments the door was thrown open, and out upon them rushed the Frenchmen, armed with the weapons they had concealed in the so-called coffin. The inhabitants could make no resistance, and were compelled to witness the savage desolation of their homesteads in wrathful silence. After plundering them of their very clothes, and destroying or taking away their flocks and herds, the freebooters retired, and abandoned them to their misery. The island is now the property of W. Heaven, Esq. It was sold, in 1840, for nearly £10,000. The ruins of MORISCO'S CASTLE and ST. ANNE'S CHAPEL are the only antiquities it possesses. APPENDIX. BY BOAT-UP THE RIVER TAMAR. [FROM PLYMOUTH TO THE WEIR HEAD.] [For the convenience of the tourist who undertakes this delightful excursion, we have arranged the following Table.] BY BOAT-UP THE RIVER TAMAR-Continued. ON THE LEFT BANK. (RIGHT HAND.) 2 m. inland, BEER ALSTON. 16 DANESCOMBE, a quiet wooded hollow, associated by old tradition with memories of the Danish Vikingir. We have now reached the romantic demesne of COTHELE (Earl Mount Edgecumbe), a fine old mansion of granite, surrounded by clustering elm, chesnut, oak, and larch, and dating from the time of Henry VII. Observe the CHAPEL ROCK. The path to the house is an agreeable one (see p. 377). 17 Another curve of the river, and we reach CALSTOCK. The banks are luxuriant in leafy shadows. HAREWOOD HOUSE, Sir W. Trelawney, where Mason places the scene of his tragedy of "Elfrida." A footpath leads through the grounds to the ferry at Morwellham. 20 The MORWELL ROCKS. The scenery here is of the most noble character. 21 CALSTOCK CHURCH. The WEIR HEAD, about 23 m. from Plymouth. Be- |