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been made equally favorable to my views^ 

 as that in which I was placed — as it wer^ 

 providentially. There is no other indi- 

 vidual ftation, in which I could haye com- 

 manded, fo well, the two Counties of 

 Devon and Cornwall, and, at the fame 

 time, the fertile Diflirid of the South 

 Hams, — "the Garden of Devonfhire," — 

 of which dillinguilhed Diftrid the Valley 

 of the Tamer forms, in reality, a part. 



Beside, in the Valley of the Tameo 

 and on the magnificent Farm on which I 

 relided, — the very firfl: in the Country, — I 

 poiTefled the moffc favorable opportunity, 

 that either circumftances or choice had to 

 give, of iludying the Danmonian prac- 

 tice, in all its branches, and in its almoft 

 priftine purity *. 



A FEW 

 * Danmonian,— an epithet derived from Dan- 

 ivioNiA, the antient ilame of part, or the whole, of this 

 "VV'eitern Peninfula of Britain. 



