 This county, as it is spacious, so it is populous, and very laborious, rough, and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways, which are cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones, painful for man and horse; as they can best witness who have made...  Home Scenes, Or, Tavistock and Its Vicinity - Seite 22von Rachel Evans - 1846 - 258 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Tristram Risdon - 1811 - 548 Seiten
...it is populous, and very laborious, rough, and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways, which are cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones,...For be they never so well mounted upon horses out of otber countries, when they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease... | |
 | Tristram Risdon - 1811 - 548 Seiten
...exceedingly bad, anil is he quaintly tells u1;, ': painful for man and horse, as they Ha best witut-ss, who have made trial thereof. For be they never so well mounted upon horses out of oihe r roimtries, when they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease... | |
 | Thomas Moore (writer on Devon.) - 1829 - 686 Seiten
...observes, "rough and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways, which are cumbersome and uneven, among rocks and stones, painful for man and horse; as they...they never so well mounted upon horses out of other counties, when they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease of travel,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1874 - 936 Seiten
...parts deep and miry, in others steep and rocky — painful for man and horse, as they can best testify who have made trial thereof; for be they never so well mounted upon horses out of other counties, when they have travelled one journey in these parts, they will in respect of ease of travel... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1890 - 408 Seiten
...1645. 6 In RISDON'S Chorographwal Description of Devonshire, ed. of 1714, page 3, we find : roads " are cumbersome and uneven, amongst Rocks and Stones,...and Horse, as they can best witness who have made Tryal thereof. For be they never so well mounted upon Horses out of other countries, when they have... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1894 - 618 Seiten
...and travelling was not easy nor was it always safe. Even in Risdon's time the roads in Devon were ' cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones, painful...they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease of travel, forbear a second.' The roads were not meant for carriages or carts,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 Seiten
...Risdon confesses, is ' very laborious, rough, and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways which are cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones...they can best witness who have made trial thereof.', Nothing, however, lightens the tedium of a journey so well as a cheery companion ; and few pleasanter... | |
 | Victor Clinton Clinton-Baddeley - 1928 - 332 Seiten
...it is populous, and very laborious, rough, and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways, which are cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones,...they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease of travel, forbear a second." That is a hard saying for these days ; yet travelling,... | |
 | Gilbert Sheldon - 1928 - 202 Seiten
...average; many were difficult to traverse, even 1 Webb, p. 76. on horseback. Risdon writes that they were 'painful for man and horse, as they can best witness,...they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease of travel, forbear a second.'1 It will be noticed that Risdon does not take... | |
 | Mark Brayshay - 1996 - 220 Seiten
...it is populous, and very laborious, rough, and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways, which are cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones,...they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease of travel, forbear a second. And therefore so much less passable for the enemy,-... | |
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