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be appeased, and the perfume in the air given 

 by the peat smoke from some sohtary cottage 

 of a shepherd, or other denizen of the moor, is 

 not to be excelled by the rarest essences that 

 Piesse and Lubin can supply, or that can be 

 distilled from the rarest and choicest flowers 

 that grow in this or foreign lands — that is, 

 to my nostrils, which have a strong tendency 

 to prefer the sweet odours of nature to those 

 of art. 



On going into a cottage near the borders of 

 the moor on one occasion, I complimented the 

 goodwife on the healthy appearance of her 

 children. She said, " Yes, the ones that live to 

 get that size are hardy enough ; but if they are 

 at all weakly when young the weather soon 

 kills them." 



The following description of Dartmoor, given 

 by the Reverend Samuel Rowe in his excellent 

 work, is so fine, and gives so faithful a descrip- 

 tion of this grand tract of wild moor country, 

 that I trust I may be excused for giving it 

 here in full. 



Mr. Rowe there says : " There are numerous 

 tracts of the moor where, around the whole 

 expanse, the eye cannot light upon a single 



