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Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Rame Head and Dodman Point - a proverb

Looking towards Dodman Point - By Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel from Holmbury St.Mary, UK (Portholland) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

"'When Dudman and Ram-head meet.'

These are two fore-lands, well known to sailors, nigh twenty miles asunder, and the Proverb passeth for the periphrasis of an impossibility."

Ray 1768

Map - Dodman Point
Map - Rame Head

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