Category: Travel Writing
The rivers that flow from Dartmoor--The bogs are their cradles--A tailor lost on the moor--A man in Aune Mire--Some of the worst bogs--Cranmere Pool--How the bogs are formed--Adventure in Redmoor Bog--Bog plants--The buckbean--Sweet gale--Furze--Yellow broom--Bee-keeping.
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17. CHAPTER XVII.Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt and Princetown--A desolate spot--The prisons--Escapes--A burglary--Merrivale Bridge and its group of remains--Staple Tor--Walk up the Walkham to Merrivale Br...
15. CHAPTER XV.Yelverton or Elford-town--Longstone--The Elfords--"The Silly Doe"--Mr. Collier on otter-hunting--Sheeps Tor church--The reservoir--The old vicarage--The Bull-ring--Rajah Brooke-...
12. CHAPTER XII.Beauty of the site--The church--Destruction of the cross--Lustleigh Cleave--North Bovey--Lustleigh church--Prouze tombs--The sacrifice of a cat--Bishop Stapeldon's stone--Becka...
3. CHAPTER III.Abundance of remains of primeval inhabitants--No trace of Briton or Saxon on Dartmoor--None of Palæolithic man--The Neolithic man who occupied it--Account of his migrations--His...
4. CHAPTER IV.Innumerable relics on Dartmoor--Small in size--Great destruction of them that has taken place--Lake-head Hill thus devastated--Classification of the remains--1. The dolmen, an o...
9. CHAPTER IX.An out-of-the-world spot--The church dilapidated--The clerk--Situation of Lydford--An early fortress--The church of S. Petrock--British foundations--Monument of the watch-maker-...
16. CHAPTER XVI.The beech trees were planted at the same time that two lodges were erected by a gentleman called Hullett, who was induced to believe that he could convert a portion of Dartmoor...
19. PART II.--FICTION6. CHAPTER VI.Cairns on Dartmoor--Why mostly in solitary places and on hilltops--The theory of wearing mourning--Its real origin--Various modes of deceiving the dead or discouraging them from...
2. CHAPTER II.Dartmoor from a distance--Elevation--The tors--Old lake-beds--"Clitters"--The boldest tors--Luminous moss--The whortleberry--Composition of granite--Wolfram--The "forest" and it...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Holne church and screen--Epitaph--Holne Chase--The Coffin-stone--Dartmeet Bridge--Dolly's Cot--Dolly Trebble--Sherrill--Yar Tor--Proposed new road--Pixy Holt--Blowing-house at O...
1. CHAPTER I.The rivers that flow from Dartmoor--The bogs are their cradles--A tailor lost on the moor--A man in Aune Mire--Some of the worst bogs--Cranmere Pool--How the bogs are formed--Ad...
10. CHAPTER X.Derivation of the name--Phoenicians--Taw Marsh--Artillery practice on the moors--Encroachments--The East Okement--Pounds and hut circles--Stone rows on Cosdon--Cranmere Pool--St...
8. CHAPTER VIIIRemains of the tin-streamers--Dartmoor stream tin--Lode tin--The dweller in the hut circles did not work the tin--The tin trade with Britain--How tin was extracted--A furnace--D...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The moors on the south not bold--South Brent--Destruction of the screen--The Avon--Zeal Plains crowded with prehistoric remains--The Abbots' Way--Huntingdon's Cross--Petre's Cro...
11. CHAPTER XI."Chagford in the dirt"--The making of Chagford--The old clerk--The church--Tincombe Lane--Chagford Common--Flint finds--Scaur Hill circle--Stone rows--The Tolmen--The Teign rive...
7. CHAPTER VII.No camps in the forest--All on the confines--No apprehension of attack from the south--Whit Tor--The exploration of the camp--How the walls were constructed--This explains their...
5. CHAPTER V.Lucubrations of antiquaries in past times--How their imagination led them astray--Rock idols--Logan stones--Who originated the idea that they were oracular--Rock basins--Tolmens...