INTO CORNWALL, THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF SOUTHAMPTON, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET & DEVON: INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS, MORAL, HISTORICAL, LITERARY, AND POLITICAL. BY GEORGE LIPSCOMB. "I pity the Man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and YORICK Warwick: PRINTED AND SOLD BY H. SHARPE; And F. &C. RIVINGTON, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-yard, London. 1799. MRS Mathews July 22,1946 PREFACE. THE Author of the following pages, having been encouraged to offer them to the Public, thinks it necessary to preface his performance with observing, that as it was originally undertaken solely with an intention of affording some amusement for the leisure hours of a Friend, he feels a considerable degree of embarrassment in exposing it to the public eye. It was first comprised in a series of Letters; the bulk of which would have swelled the Volume to a large size; and many of the remarks and allusions, contained in them, being designed only for private perusal, would have been altogether uninteresting to the generality of Readers it has, therefore, been found expedient to suppress a considerable part, and to put the remainder into a different dress, in which, it is now very respectfully presented, |