Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 Excerpt: ...a cheerful and fashionable sea-bathing place. It has good machines for that purpose, upon clean and convenient sands, within shelter of the cobb. Good warm and cold sea-baths have been constructed, with promenade and reading rooms attached. The public rooms, for balls and card assemblies, have been several years established, well situated on the shore, and are both commodious and agreeable. A good public walk that borders the sea, from the rooms to the entrance of the cobb, is maintained at considerable expense for public use; and the cobb itself offers, in continuation, a fine promenade, for cheerful prospect and fine sea breezes. The town consists principally of one long steep street, descending to the shore., and crossed by some others at the lower end. At this part stands the church, now almost overhanging the sea, upon a little hill, which has gradually been washed away almost to the church-yard walls. Tradition, however, assigns to it a situation considerably distant from the sea, whose encroaching waves have gained greatly upon the shore. The cobb is described by Camden to have been sheltered against storms, by rocks and lofty trees: these, however, have since that period almost disappeared; but an addition to the town is forming at the cobb, where are several new built dwellings, and shipwrights and merchants' yards and warehouses. Lyme is only to be approached down a steep declivity, which affords it full shelter from the north, and makes its air warm and temperate in winter; while the pure sea-breezes relieve it from the heat of summer. The shore is very picturesquely embellished by a semi-circular range of hills and cliffs, of the most pleasing outlines. On the one side, towards Sidmouth, they are lofty, steep, and chalky; on the other, towards B...
