Diary of Charles Francis Adams, 1862
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1862-08-20
At an early hour in the morning I walked with a strong vertigo which for more than hour rendered almost every exertion impossible. I dressed myself with the greatest difficulty. But the feeling gradually subsided so far as to enable me to mount the top of the vehicle which I had engaged to take us on after breakfast to Ilfracombe twenty miles. And as I proceeded the air seemed to revive me. The drive is most of it continued over the plateau of high land which we entered upon at Porlock. it is wild and much of it solitary, but not particularly striking. My sons determined on taking another way