JOURNEY

INTO

CORNWALL.

A JOURNEY

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
cry 'Tis all barren; and so it is: and so is all the World to
him who will not cultivate the Fruits it offers."

YORICK

Warwick:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY H. SHARPE;

And F. & C. RIVINGTON, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-yard, London.

1799.

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PREFACE.

THE Author of the follow

ing 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,