 There, he created a Spanish style garden and built a Moorish-style summer house.This interest caused him to write an article on cob walls, contributed to John Murray's "Quarterly Review" (April 1837), in which he likened the local Devon cob to the Spanish tapia buildings.This proved to be the precursor of many contributions, mainly, but not exclusively, to the Quarterly, mainly on Spanish subjects, which continued until 1857.