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many shades before in my life & everything looked so green & peaceful. All the way through Somerset we passed beautiful little villages perched on hills with flowers coloring everything & fine rivers & creeks with swollen waters for there had been a lot of rain of late, in fact the country looked almost perfect. We stopped at Bristol for an hour & a half & there was a general stampede for dinner & then back to the station & into the train & by heavens she was a fast one averaged 60 miles an hour to Newington Stoke where we got on to another line for Devonport. This was the first time I had seen Devonshire & no doubt shes a lovely little country & fairly hilly we passed through Taunton & Exeter on our way down & eventually pulled into Devonport towards evening. We had about a mile to march to our Camp which like all Military turnouts lay fair on top of a hill overlooking the town. We drew our blankets 5 per man & then had some tea or rather an apology for such for it only consisted of tea & bread & butter & a little jam, washed down with