Excerpt from In the West Country But those descriptions, marvellous as they are, were borrowed from books. It was not until fourteen years after that passage was written that the dream of forty years was fulfilled; that the author of At Last was able to see with his own eyes the West Indies and the Spanish Main; could, as he says, compare books with facts, and judge for myself of the reported wonders of the earthly paradise. But it is quite another thing when he is talking of the coast of Devon. There his foot is on his native heath. He was not, it is true, born within sound of the sea, but some'of his earliest memories were of Hartland and Welcombe, of Bideford and Clovelly. Above all of Clovelly. To use his wife's words, His love for Clovelly was a passion. Even his well-loved. Eversley had hardly a warmer place in his regard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.