NATURAL HISTORY. 
1—THE GRANITE FORMATION. 
We shall begin with the oldest Rock of the pri- 
mitive class, namely, the Granite, of which looking 
Westward up the line of the Teign, to the High 
Torr* and neighbouring hills, which are the bound- 
ary of our view in that direction, we see the Eastern 
edge. This formation occupies the central, and 
most elevated district of the County, and continues 
on thro’ Cornwail to the Land’s end. It includes 
the whole of the extensive forest of Dartmoor, with 
its wild romantic scenery, and Torrs, as well as 
several parishes immediately round that great waste. 
In the district we are speaking of, it occupies the 
entire parishes of Widdecombe in the Moor, Mana- 
ton, and Lustleigh. Its general direction is N. W. 
and S, E. forming on its Eastern-most side, an 
irregular, and indented outline, thro’ the igher and 
Western-most parts of the parishes of Hennock, 
Bovey Tracey, Hisington, and Ashburton. The 
most remarkable of the Torrs, near this boundary, 
are the two elevations known by the name of the 
High Torr rocks ; these are nearly 1600 feet above 
the sea level, and from their summits, the finest 
panoramic view in the County presents itself.. They 
* This has been erroneously spelt Haytor, the mistake 
probably originated in considering them as in the hundred 
of Heytor, and as giving name to it, which is not the case, 
they are in the hundred of Teigubridge. 
