ilfracomb

Updated: July 7, 2025

The reason of this was to be found in his whole past life, as I had it, at different times, from himself. He was an Englishman, by birth, a native of Ilfracomb, in Devonshire.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

Holding our course from thence to the N.E. till we were in lat. 47° N. we changed our course on the 22nd May to E.N.E. The 29th of May we had soundings in seventy fathoms on white ooze, being then in lat. 51° N. The 30th of May we got sight of St Ives on the north coast of Cornwall, and arrived on the 2nd of June at Ilfracomb, in Devonshire.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 : Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.

Such was the man, who, at forty, was still a dog before the mast, at twelve dollars a month. The reason of this was to be found in his past life, as I had it, at different times, from himself. He was an Englishman, a native of Ilfracomb, in Devonshire.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast