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Book: Gardening tours by J.C. Loudon 1831-1842
Chapter: Somersetshire, Devonshire and Cornwall in 1842

Globe Inn Plymouth

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Sept. 14. - Plymouth to Saltash, Trematon Castle, Pentillie Castle, and Callington. We found the Globe Inn at Plymouth an excellent house, centrally situated for the nurseries and the post-office, with a piano in the sitting-room, and some books, but not enough. Every inn ought to have the history and description of the town in which it is situated, if there is one; and, next, county descriptions and histories, with a copy of Shakespeare. If every traveller were to say as much at inns about books as we generally do, every inn would soon have a library. All who think this desirable should do as we do. It can be no great hardship for the smallest inn or public-house to take in Chambers's Journal, or the Penny Magazine.