DAR 
amounted to 468 Supiee by 2406 inhabitants. 
Hatted’s Hitt. oi Ken t. 
DARTMOOR, in the county of Devon, England, 
is a large waite and foreft, extending from Cheyford, 
near the banks of the Tamar, to Taviltock, in the vale 
of Exeter. The length is about twenty miles, and the 
breadth fourteen; ne includes between two and three hun- 
dred thoufand acres of open, uncultivated lands. The fur- 
face is wildiy and wonderfully varied. It {wells in bold emi- 
nences from fifteen to eighteen hundred feet high, and again 
defcends into hollow glens on cavities. 
the fouth and fouth-eaft, the eye is bewilder wing an 
exteufive tract, exhibiting fodder hills, aie torrs, furfaces 
covered wit cae a ofles of gra- 
i i ong Lie 
a fe 
See 
appear- 
moor, to the north-weit, are large tracts of fwampy land, 
exceedingly dangerous to cattle, which depafture the fcanty 
herbage; but yield a conftant fupply of fuel to the poor cot- 
tagers, from the immenfe beds of peat, which lie beneath the 
furface. The inhabitants are called moormen, who keep a 
few fheep and cattle on the Hn and look after the ae 
and herds of others. of depafturage belongs to 
different interefts. 
foreft, by paying a {mall annual {um to the 
duchy, called venville or Penfield wo mon 
as the name fugge 
with timber, the only rema ining. natural wood ts an affem- 
blage of dwarf ferubby oaks, in pate on mountain- 
afh trees, willows, and underwood. Within a few years, 
fome thoufands of acres have been grubbed up, and nu- 
lantations formed. Much land has alfo 
been converted into tillage by the command of his royal 
highnefs, under the direétion of colonel Tyrwhit. 
Tor has long been celebrated as the place where th 
nary-courts, or pa ar ey were held for this county; wheace 
that it had been a feat of Britith 
judicature prior to the 
n this moor there is now ere&ing a large prifon, which 
is intended to be appropriated t to thofe unfortunate perfons 
who arec 
. At various places on this extent 
afte of {everal exhaufted and negle aoe 
in the vicinity of Taviftock are fom 
See Polwhele’s Hiftory of Devonthire; as ae 
Cene of England and Wales, vol.i 
ARTMOUTH, is a Sarah, fea-por 
town, in the county of Devon, England; 30 miles diftant 
from Exeter, and 203% welt from London. It formerly 
was the property of Judhael de Totnefs, to whom the ma- 
or was granted by the Conqueror. “The town firit fent 
members to parliament in the time of Henry I.; bit not re~ 
gularly till the reign of Edward II1., who granted ita 
t, and market 
ymon-council men, with other inferior officers. 
poration is veited the right of eleétion, and the 
his place was oo by fre. in the 
d again in the re nof Henry IV. 
In both inftances it was by French incendi: res, who efcaped 
ey: 
it was once well clothed. 
ood 1 
mee 
ey weie intercepte 
re i 
Un ted ‘by aiidines wet in mat to local re 
lations, thcy were diftin@. From ie natural fituation of 
the ar a craggy hill, many of ¢ reets are aukward, 
and m f them incommodioudl pies an ie lower 
tier of ales frequently communicates with thofe above by 
flights of fteps. The principal one which faces the quay, 
is a ae by the merchants. ag tmouth has Bhs 
churches, and a mecting-houfe for diffenters. St. Clement’s 
lot is Gen: ed upon a hill above the town, and ee a 
wer 70 feet biphs ie an excellent fea-mark. Here are 
see ses {choo i 
he river Dart, opening into a fine eftuary, forms an ex- 
cellent a fate batbour, fufficiently capacious to admit five 
hund 
2 
ndréd fail of fhipping. ce is defended by a 
caftle, and two fortified platforms; but the fortrefs is not 
large, and fe ins are mou mberw of veffels are 
employed in the pilchard-fifhery, >wn has an exe 
it imports wine, oil, fruits,- &c Pp 
longing to ars aides is about 350, which gives employment 
to upwards of 3000 men; a certain number of whom the 
proprietors are obliged by law to fele&t from fan, by - 
‘The regular market is on Friday, but a well fup- 
plied fifh-market is held every day, except Sunday. By the 
returns under t ao ate at, the number of houfes was 4605 
and rane 341 
north of de harbour 4h inks the a bea 
and Saal rendezvous of the Brit eet; where, 
eorge Car ) 
houfe, a by William Bruer, in the time o 
Johns part of the ruins yet remain. And in the parifh is 
Kent ihole, a feries of aes conneéted by fubterraneous 
paflages, about 1100 feet from the entrance; through one of 
which pafles a rivulet. 
. DartrmourTs, atown of America, in the ftate of New 
Hamphhire, and county of Grafton, N.W. of the foot of 
the white mountains; 33 miles N.E. of Haverhill, and 87 
W. of Portfmenth. In 1790, it contained 111 inhabitants, 
and was incorporated in 1772.—Alfo, a thriving fea-port 
town in the county of Briftol, and ftate of Maffachufetts, 
fituated on the W. fide of Accufhnet river, 62 miles fouther- 
ly o { 4, = See ae 
inhabitants. oe 41° 37. x. 70° 52',— 
Seorgia, ne in “he peuple 
the confluence of = ad and Savannah rivers, two. 
ort mouth, a mile blow a 
derive ‘their names from Jam 
earl of Dartmouth, who obtained a grant and powers to the 
Indian trading company in Georgia to treat with the Creeks 
for the territcry called the ** New Purchafe,’’ ceded in dif- 
charge of debts due to the traders. This treat contains about 
2,000,0C0 acres, lying upon the head of the great Ogechee, 
between the banks of the Savannah and Alatamaha, touche 
ing on the Oconee, including all the waters of Broad and 
Little rivers. This territory comprehends excellent fertile 
land, weil watered by many rivers, creeks, and brooks, 
TMOUTH College. See peret 
“OS, in Anaiomy, a fuppofed mufcular expanfion, 
defcribed as exifling between ie iiiecamenrs of the fcrotu ser 
