Farewell the coolness of thy dark deep woods,
Farewell the grandeur of thy circling floods.
Where’er futurity may lead the way,
Where in this vale of life, I chance to stray—
Imagination to thy scenes shall turn,
Dwell on thy charms, and for thy beauties burn.”
After crossing the harbour to Tor Point, on the right, is Thankes, a seat of the noble family of Graves, which commands a pleasing view of the Harmoaze and surrounding country.
Antoney House, the seat of the Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew, is an elegant mansion beautifully situated on a branch of the Lynher Creek. It contains a great variety of family portraits, and a few other fine paintings, by Holbein, Vandyke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other artists.
The village of Antoney is about three miles from Plymouth, and has a very picturesque appearance from the road.—The Church is a small fabric situated on an eminence, and contains several handsome memorials of the Carew family; one of which to the memory of Richard Carew, the author of the Survey of Cornwall, has a long Latin inscription and the following curious verses:
Full thirteen fives of yeares I toiling have o’erpast,