Cornwall
9781465514912
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Library of Alexandria
Overview
Watershed, Rivers. On the Camel Wadebridge The Inny, one of the feeders of the Tamar and altogether Cornish, must not be omitted, for it is a beautiful stream. It rises in the elevated land by Davidstowe and ripples down near Altarnon, passing in a picturesque valley the Holy Well and chapel of St Clether and the ancestral seat of the Trevelyan family at Basil; then, still in its beautiful valley, past Polyphant, famous for its quarries of a stone that admits of the most delicate carving, until it reaches the Tamar at Innyfoot. It is a river rich in trout. An old Cornish song of the Altarnon volunteer has the verse: O Altarnon! O Altarnon! I ne'er shall see thee more, Nor hear the sweet bells ringing, nor stand in the church door, Nor hear the birds a-whistling, nor in the Inny stream See silver trout glance by me, as thoughts glance by in dream. It is not however the Inny but a tributary that actually passes Altarnon
