"On Devon's leafy shores."

We have, sparingly, in North Hampshire, though, strangely, not on the Bagshot moors, the Common or Northern Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris); and also, in the south, the New Forest part of the county, the delicate little Pinguicula lusitanica, the only species now found in Devon and Cornwall, marking the New Forest as the extreme eastern limit of the Atlantic flora.

" "The truth is, Dawson, that the Admiral and I both come from Devon, the land of pirates, smugglers, and buccaneers.

When I was sixteen, after I had spent eight years in Devon, and four of those years at an English public school, I was in speech and almost in the inner fibres of my mind an Englishman.

For six months, in this cold desolate spot, among a people strangely unlike the English of Devon, though they are of kindred race, I laboured for six months in the Torpedo Factory.

Her hair was red copper, her skinthe "glad neck" of her dress showed a lot of ithad the colour and bloom, the cream and roses, of Devon.

For when naval ships go down, they take with them crews of whom half have their homes in Devon.

He ought to be a Devon man.

He conferred on him the whole estate of William Peverell, which had escheated to the crown: he put him in possession of eight castles, with all the forests and honours annexed to them: he delivered over to him no less than six earldoms, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Nottingham, Dorset, Lancaster, and Derby.

"I, J.A.H. De la Bere, of Woolsevy Rectory, Morchard Bishop, Devon, desire to Alter my Surname to De la Fontaine.

*** Lundy Island has just been purchased by Mr. AUGUSTUS CHRISTIE, of North Devon.

" Devon and Exeter Gazette.

When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King PHILIP'S pride, He had great ships at his bidding and little ones beside; Revenge was there, and Lion, and others known to fame,

He stiles himself Priest, and Chaplain in the College of St. Mary, Otory, in the county of Devon, and afterwards Monk of Ely.

About two months after, Raleigh was chosen Knight of the Shire for his county of Devon, and made a considerable figure in parliament, where a bill passed in confirmation of his patent for the discovery of foreign countries.

The "figures" are the farmers, villagers, and shepherds of that part of Devon, known as Dartmoor; and the landscapes are the granite crags, the moors; and farmlands of "good red earth."

Widecombe Fair (1913) is the twentieth volume that he has published as a result of twenty years' work among these children of Devon.

Yet if he were there in safety, it was owing to the policy of the parliament, who deemed it more prudent to reduce the counties of Devon and Cornwall, the chief asylum of his adherents.

We have seen such invalids lodged in cold, half-furnished houses, and shivering under blasts of wind from the Alps or Apennines, who might more happily have been sheltered in the vales of Somerset or Devon.

* * SELF-DETERMINATION IN DEVON.

*** "The only cure for the caterpillar now destroying young oaks in Devon," says a morning paper, "is to remove the pest at once."

The report of the Devon Commission, the green pamphlet containing an account of the famous three days' discussion between O'Connell and Butt in the Dublin Corporation In 1843, or half a dozen of Lord Clare's speeches between 1793 and 1800, will give a clearer insight into the Irish problem than a bushel of books about the Vendéan or any other episode of the Revolution.

manor house, formerly belonging to the Earls of Devon.

Past the church, two pleasant combes may be reached, Tannery Combe and Hodder's Combe (the latter is perhaps a corruption of the name of Odda, the Earl of Devon who aided Alfred, see p. 201).

In England the term is specially associated with the stannaries of Devon and Cornwall, which by an Act of Edward III.