The Heart of Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Heart of Life England, in spite of railways, still has a few districts which remain, for various reasons, almost as remote and primitive as they were a hundred or even two hundred years ago. Of such survivals there is no more complete example than that afforded by a part of Devon and Somerset, which consists mainly of bleak and mountainous moorland, and confronts for some thirty miles tho waters of the Bristol Channel. It is true that here and there amongst its uninvited valleys lonely populations hide themselves in villages with surrounding hedgerows , and in some of the Valparaiso, streams, brown with peat, slide and pour and foam through cloisters of sequestered woodland. But of spots like these a stranger sees nothing, and even here, in tho green glades, or by the farm or by tho village mill, there is a sense in tho air of the open surrounding country-of rolling hills, bare to the wind and mist, where the tufted heather lifts itself, solitary as a wave at sea. Geographically, however, civilization is not far off. On the western frontier of this region is the well-known watering-place, Lyncombe, its wooded crags and hillsides glittering with hotels and lodiring-houses, and on the eastern, a shed at tho end of a straggling hamlet forms the terminus of a branch line of railway. But between these two points the progressive world of to-day shows its existence only in a modern road connecting them, and even this looks nearly as wild as the solitudes through which it passes. So at least it may well striko a stranger. 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.