Tries to depict unto the mind.
Go thither, thou’lt be sure to find
(Though I might fail to pen aright)
A picture pleasing to the sight;
And none, I ween, more fairer in our clime.
[25] “Lovers’ Leap,” which is situated in a very picturesque spot on the banks of the river Dart, is a perpendicular rugged precipice, immediately contiguous to a carriage-road. Its summit is about seventy feet above the river, and where, at the foot of the rock, the stilly waters flow: distance from Ashburton about three miles, and about half a mile from the foot of “Raven Rock,” which is seen on “Lovers’ Leap” with great advantage.
[26] The late lamented Prince Consort, accompanied by the late Colonel Phipps, and two other gentlemen in attendance on His Royal Highness, made a tour from Dartmouth, viâ Totnes, to Ashburton, and thence to Tavistock (en route for Plymouth by this circuit), proceeding by way of the river Dart, in the carriage-drive which passes over “Lovers’ Leap,” on the 20th of July, 1852; Her Majesty Queen Victoria proceeding, in the meanwhile, in her yacht to Plymouth.
[27] “Raven Rock”—aspect south from “Lovers’ Leap.”
[28] This is stated on the authority of Mr. G. Sparkes, of Ashburton, who had the honour of conducting His Royal Highness and suite through this part of the journey.
[29] Gathered to his fathers, December 14, 1861, in his forty-second year.