An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities: With Some Accounts of Its BordersSeeley and Company, Limited, 1892 - 316 páginas |
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... Rowe's ' Perambulations of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor , 1848 ' Tickler's ' Devonshire Sketches : Dartmoor ' ' Transactions of the Devonshire Association ' ' Transactions of the Plymouth Institution ' ... ... ... Ormerod . Rowe ...
... Rowe's ' Perambulations of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor , 1848 ' Tickler's ' Devonshire Sketches : Dartmoor ' ' Transactions of the Devonshire Association ' ' Transactions of the Plymouth Institution ' ... ... ... Ormerod . Rowe ...
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... Rowe , the standard book upon Dartmoor , and a contri- bution to its literature which has perhaps done more to create a real and abiding interest in the great Devonshire upland than any other work . The article on Dartmoor in Murray's ...
... Rowe , the standard book upon Dartmoor , and a contri- bution to its literature which has perhaps done more to create a real and abiding interest in the great Devonshire upland than any other work . The article on Dartmoor in Murray's ...
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... Rowe's ' Perambulation , ' says : " It is indeed possible that there formerly existed more wood on Dartmoor than is now to be found , and that the tinners , who certainly were allowed to supply themselves with fuel for the fusion of the ...
... Rowe's ' Perambulation , ' says : " It is indeed possible that there formerly existed more wood on Dartmoor than is now to be found , and that the tinners , who certainly were allowed to supply themselves with fuel for the fusion of the ...
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... Rowe : Other marks of the fluid state of the granite also constantly occur , where the neighbouring rock is altered in character by the heated mass . Thus many of the gneissic rocks in the vicinity of granite are ascertained to be ...
... Rowe : Other marks of the fluid state of the granite also constantly occur , where the neighbouring rock is altered in character by the heated mass . Thus many of the gneissic rocks in the vicinity of granite are ascertained to be ...
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... bags of the metal . All mines , both in Devon and Cornwall , were subject to the laws of the Stannary Parliament . From a period * Vide Historical View of Mining , ' Rowe , p . 241 . Stannary Towns , Courts and Laws . 29 of unknown.
... bags of the metal . All mines , both in Devon and Cornwall , were subject to the laws of the Stannary Parliament . From a period * Vide Historical View of Mining , ' Rowe , p . 241 . Stannary Towns , Courts and Laws . 29 of unknown.
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Abbey ancient antiquity appears avenue Barrows Beacon beautiful Belstone beneath Bovey Bovey Tracey Bray Brent Tor Bridge cairn Castle Celtic Chagford church circle Cleave Cornwall Cosdon Cranmere Cranmere Pool cromlech cross Dart Dartmoor descend Devon Devonshire diameter distance Druids east enclosure erected farm feet forest Gidleigh granite Grey Wethers Grimspound ground Hameldon height High Willhays hill Holne hut-circles inches kistvaen known legend Lydford Manaton manor menhir miles Mis Tor monument Moor moorland neighbourhood northern Ockment Okehampton once Ormerod parish passing perhaps picturesque pile Pixies Plymouth Postbridge pound present Princetown probably relic remains ridge rising river road rock basins rocky Rowe rugged ruins Saxon Scorhill Sheepstor side slabs slope spot stands Stannary Stannary town steep stone stream summit Tavistock Tavy Teign tolmen tower town traces tumulus valley Vide village wall weather West western wild wooded yards Yes Tor
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Página 10 - The west wind always brings wet weather, The east wind wet and cold together, The south wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. " If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in grey, The next will be a rainy day.
Página 220 - Above the hill's bold brow, and, seen from far, Assumes the human form ;—a Granite God ! **— To whom, in days long flown, the suppliant knee In trembling homage bow'd.
Página 295 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Página 292 - December, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, James, by the grace of God, of England, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., the twentieth, and of Scotland the fifty-sixth.* LENOX, HAMILTON, ARRTJNDELL, SURREY, BARN.
Página 298 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Página 238 - Rocky thou art, and rocky we discover Thy men, and rocky are thy ways all over. O men, O manners, now and ever known To be a rocky generation ! A people currish, churlish as the seas, A.nd rude almost as rudest savages, With whom I did, and may re-sojourn when Rocks turn to rivers, rivers turn to men.
Página 298 - ... the church, which so affrighted the congregation that most of them fell down in their seats, some upon their knees, others on their faces, and some one upon another, crying out of burning and scalding and all giving themselves up for dead.
Página 112 - Here lies in horizontal position the outside case of George Routleigh, watchmaker, whose abilities in that line were an honour to his profession : integrity was the mainspring, and prudence the regulator...
Página 295 - Twere better to be stoned and pressed, Or hanged, now choose you whether. " Ten men less room within this cave Than five mice in a lantern have. The keepers they are sly ones. If any could devise by art To get it up into a cart, 'Twere fit to carry lions.