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FIFTH WALK.

WHITCHURCH VILLAGE AND DOWN.

"Calm village silence, and the hope of heaven."

UR next walk may lead us by the Abbey Bridge to the old Plymouth road, which by many gently rising ascents will bring us to the pleasant village of Whitchurch. On our right as we proceed along, we look down into the retired alley, well known to rustic lovers as Piscay or Pixie lane. Whether a Devon Titania throws her spells over this favourite spot is not precisely ascertained, but certain it is that "many a man and many a maid, wander in the chequered shade." Near its foot by West Bridge is a chalybeate well; the peculiar virtues of this fountain consist in imparting vigour to the frame, and roses to the cheeks of every fair damsel who partakes of its waters at the early hour of six on a summer's morning. Try it ye fair nymphs of the "flowing Teave;" above all prove its efficacy before you enter the enchanted haunts of Pixie lane. Returning to the old road, (which is as delightful as old roads generally are;-dry in winter; shady in summer; radiant with some kind of verdure at every season of the year,) we stop to gather some delicious water cresses at a small stream that forms a kind

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