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Excerpt from Henry De Pomeroy Or, the Eve of St. John: A Legend of Cornwall and Devon; Also, the White Rose: A Domestic Talk I had long entertained the wish to visit that part of Devon known by the name of the South Hams, but not so designated, I presume, as an ingenious historian once conjectured, in honour of Ammon, who, he states, was worshipped by the Druid priesthood on the southern coast of that county; for as the word Ham was anciently applied to a low pasture ground, situated near a river or the sea, this circumstance alone seems to point out the source whence the Hams derived their name, as the cattle ground of Devon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.