inclined plane 240 feet high.) and deposit the goods, which are conveyed thither in its iron boats* to be again shipped and borne away by the Tamar. "The tunnel

was opened in June 1817, having been completed at an expence of £68,000. There is little inducement to pass through the gloomy hole, which forms an entrance to this subterranean passage, we will therefore retrace our steps homeward, admiring in our way the beautiful view presented at one turn of the canal by the town of Tavistock, with its church tower and surrounding trees, and the tors of Dartmoor beyond. Before leaving the banks of the canal we must notice some pleasant fields, (closely cropped by the nibbling sheep,) which in the fine summer evenings have been used as a cricket ground-They belong to Fitzford, an estate once possessed by the family of Fitz, but which like most part of the land in the neighbourhood of Tavistock, has passed into the hands of the Duke of Bedford. A gothic archway overgrown with ivy, part of an ancient barn, and some venerable trees, are all that remain to mark the grandeur of the mansion of the Fitzes. "Tradition relates, that John Fitz whose horoscope was overshadowed from his birth had the mischance to slay Sir Nicholas Slanning in a duel, which took place beneath the old gateway at Fitzford. Having through continued ill fortune slain two

*The principal articles conveyed in them are Ore, Coal, and Lime. + On the monument to Sir Nicholas Slanning, which has but lately been taken down in Bickleigh Church, was the following epitaph, alluding to the fatal rencounter;

"Idem eœdis erat nostræ simul author et ultor,

Trux homicida mei, mox homicida sui;

Quamg, in me primum, mox in se conditit ensem:

O nostrum, summi Judicis, arbitrium."

Translated thus by Prince in his "Worthies of Devon:"
"He author of my murder was, and the revenger too,

A bloody murderer of me, and then himself he slew,

The very sword wich in mine first, he bathed in his own blood;
O! of the highest Judge "twixt us, the arbitration good!"

other persons, Fitz in despair at length fell upon his own sword, and perished." His only daughter Mary, born in 1596, married successively four noble gentlemen. Her third husband was Sir Charles Howard, son of the Earl of Suffolk: Her last husband Sir Richard Grenville as we have before said, embraced the royal cause in the great Rebellion in 1644, and was attacked at Fitzford, by the Parliamentary General, the Earl of Essex. This is therefore the Lady Mary Howard, (properly Lady Grenville,) of ghostly memory. * Lady Grenville is said to have suffered as well as others from the tyranical disposition of Sir Richard; but she bears the stigma according to Mrs Bray in her "Tavy and Tamar," of having been an unnatural mother; what greater crime can be imputed to a woman?

*KEMPE'S NOTICES OF TAVISTOCK &c.

In a meadow near the Tavistock gas station is a small building, erected over a spring which supplied the mansion of Fitzford with water. Mr. Kempe intimates that "the counterpart lease of a field, with liberty to John Fytz, Esq. to convey water from a fountain therein "in pipes of timber, lead, or otherwise," to his mansion house at Fitzford, dated 10th of Elizabeth, is extant in the archives of Tavistock parish."

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SECOND WALK.

MOUNT TAVY, COXTOR, PETERTAVY, MARYTAVY, &c.

E may commence another walk by following the road to the moor, pausing on Vigo bridge to admire the pretty weir and fine old trees overshadowing it by the woollen factory. Mount Tavy, with its lawn, dotted by cattle and sheep, and its sheltering groves also wins our admiration.

Pursuing our way we look down on the vale of Parkwood; the noble façade of a house of Grecian architecture presents itself amidst surrounding shrubberies. On the opposite bank of the Tavy, the farm of Rowden is seen surmounted by a finely wooded promontory, which an experienced traveller has declared to equal anything of the kind in Italian scenery. Still farther on, the retreat of Tavy Cottage, with the house and plantations of Hazledon, and the little hamlets of Twobridges and Wilminstone appear, while the whole is backed by some noble tors, the pointed eminence by Tavycleaves called par excellence "Grat Tor," or Great Tor, rising in grandeur above the whole. The road now conducts to the entrance to Mount Tavy where we may admire a piece of water with a small island in the centre, shaded by drooping willows. Leaving the high road for a moment we turn