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Excerpt from The Quantocks and Their Associations: A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December, 1871
Around the brows of these hills wind beautiful walks that extend for miles through oak woods, once the favourite haunt of the poets and their friends; such are the valley of the Seven Wells, Cockercombe, Hunter's Dell, and other points of similar interest. They have since been rendered more accessible by the formation Of drives that Open out the most charming scenes of woodland beauty. Southey, in one of his letters, affirms that Devonshire falls very flat after the North of Somerset, which is truly a magnificent country. Few strangers, however, who travel along the public road at the base of these hills would anticipate the countless beauties that lie hidden in the recesses of their dingles and bosky dells, nor the splendid prospects which their heights command. Certainly, as far as my own experience extends, I never met with so much fine mountain scenery that could be enjoyed with so trifling an amount of climbing, nor a district in which so many spots impressive from their solitude and seclusion could be so easily reached. An advantage this, to be appreciated, it may be, by persons somewhat advanced in years, more than by the droves of good people infected by the modern vulgar mania for climbing the snowy peaks of enormous mountains, with, as it would seem, no intelligible Obj ect except that of coming down again, and apart from any of those scientific researches which justify and ennoble so great an expenditure of time and toil. to such hunters after the sublime I cannot commend this part Of Somersetshire. 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.
