WATERSHED, RIVERS 15 in Cornwall, and has two formidable earthworks) it glides down to Werrington, where it meets the waters of the Attery and passes under Poison Bridge within sight of Launceston. Thenceforth the Tamar is in the full bloom of beauty. Carthamartha (Caer Tamar) stands at its junction with the Inny. Below Poison Bridge it has accepted the Lyd from Devon. Then through the lands Wadebridge and woods of the Duke of Bedford at lovely Endsleigh, under the bold crags of Morwell, up to which the tide reaches, then past Calstock and Cothele, and in serpentine writhes about Pentillie Castle, and so into the Hamoaze the most beautiful river in England, excepting possibly the Wye. The Inny, one of the feeders of the Tamar and alto- gether Cornish, must not be omitted, for it is a beautiful
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