It was just daylight as we entered the broad estuary where the rivers Taw and Torridge flow into the ocean.  We came off Appledore, at the mouth of the Torridge, on which Bideford is situated.  Bideford has an ancient school-house, where many a naval hero acquired such education as was considered necessary to prepare him for a life on the ocean. Another interesting object is its bridge, six hundred and seventy-seven feet in length, supported by twenty-four small arches, and carrying iron buttresses on its side to widen the roadway; very ugly, I thought.