Tourist's Guide to Somersetshire

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Excerpt from Tourist's Guide to Somersetshire: Rail and RoadThe mere enumeration of particular heights fails, how ever, to give an adequate idea of the surface contour of the county, which contains, apart from Exmoor, several elevated tracts of considerable extent, at times like that wild waste approaching to the dignity of valley-cleft table-land.The rivers of Somerset are numerous, but not as a rule important, and with the exception of a very small portion of the area in the se. Corner, and a part of Exmoor, the whole of the drainage finds its way into the Bristol Channel or Severn Sea, through the medium chie¿y of the only two rivers of note or commercial value the county owns, the Avon and the Parrett.Of these the Avon is the more important, and forms for many miles the boundary of the county. At Bristol it has been converted to the purposes of that ancient and distinguished port, whilst more inland it forms the basis of a canal system. The Avon rises near Badminton, and ¿ows through Wiltshire into Somerset, near Bath, where for a short distance both banks are within the latter county. The chief tributaries on the Somersetshire side are the Frome, which falls into it near Freshford, the Midford brook, which joins it near Monkton Combe, and the Chew. The Avon has a course of 62 miles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.