Excerpt from In the Land of Lorna Doone: And Other Pleasurable Excursions in England Pitiful the plight of the wayfarer who thinks it is as easy to cross afoot as it looks He sees from the coast nothing between him and the horizon but one shallow basin after another, with barely a ridge between them; no steep hills to climb, or gullies to descend; a comfort able farmhouse, or a cluster of cottages, appears, perhaps, in the lap of one of the valleys. He is spent before he is undeceived. The wild moorland falls away everywhere into dark and difiicult ravines; and the cottages, instead Of lying in a vale, are on a cliff with a long descent to the Opposite Slope. There are few levels on Exmoor, few grades that do not drag the breath out of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.