Under this title, in a west-country paper of the present year, (1827)
there is the following statement:--
On the highway near Bicton, in Devonshire, the seat of the right hon.
lord Rolle, in the centre of four cross roads, is a directing post with
the following inscriptions, by an attention to which the traveller
learns the condition of the roads over which he has to pass, and at the
same time is furnished with food for meditation:--
_To Woodbury, Topsham, Exeter._--Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and
all her paths are peace.
_To Brixton, Ottery, Honiton._--O hold up our goings in thy paths that
our footsteps slip not.
_To Otterton, Sidmouth, Culliton_, A. D. 1743.--O that our ways were
made to direct that we might keep thy statutes.
_To Budleigh._--Make us to go in the paths of thy commandments, for
therein is our desire.
* * * * *