Devonshire

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAPS

1. County and Shire. The Name Devonshire.

2. General Characteristics.

3. Size. Shape. Boundaries.

4. Surface and General Features.

5. Watershed. Rivers and the tracing of their courses. Lakes.

6. Geology.

7. Natural History.

8. A Peregrination of the Coast: 1, The Bristol Channel.

9. A Peregrination of the Coast: 2, The English Channel.

10. Coastal Gains and Losses. Sandbanks. Lighthouses.

11. Climate and Rainfall.

12. People Race. Dialects. Settlements. Population.

13. Agriculture Main Cultivations. Woodlands. Stock.

14. Industries and Manufactures.

15. Mines and Minerals.

16. Fisheries and Fishing Stations.

17. Shipping and Trade.

18. History of Devonshire.

19. Antiquities.

20. Architecture ( a ) Ecclesiastical.

21. Architecture ( b ) Military.

22. Architecture ( c ) Domestic.

23. Communications: Past and Present.

24. Administration and Divisions Ancient and Modern.

25. The Roll of Honour of the County.

26. THE CHIEF TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF DEVONSHIRE.

CAMBRIDGE COUNTY GEOGRAPHIES

General Editor: F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A., M.D.

DEVONSHIRE

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

London: FETTER LANE, E.C.

C. F. CLAY, Manager

[All rights reserved]

Cambridge County Geographies

DEVONSHIRE

by

FRANCIS A. KNIGHT

AND

LOUIE M. (KNIGHT) DUTTON

With Maps, Diagrams and Illustrations

Cambridge:

at the University Press

1910

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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