" Sid, the Axe, and the Lyn. 
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“gbandgned ; : the mines of Cornwall being confiderably more 
produdtive: : though in the’ reign of king J-hn, Devonfhire 
produced greater quantities of tin than that county ; its 
coinage. being fet to f of, annually, and that of 
Cornwall at no.more than 100 marks importance of 
its. trade’i inttin-is, ane baer aac from ats ae courts, 
and coinage, towns, 0 
The members of thefe 
ege cag time to time, and under the 
dire n, of choofing certain jurats to 
meet ina general aflembly a Ciockern Tor, in the midft of 
Dartmoor, with power to make laws for the regulation o 
the mines and Rannaries, ‘ There are numberlefs itream- 
works .on t and in its vicinities,’? Mr. Polwhele 
oblerves, ‘* which have lain forfaken for ages. In the pa- 
rifhes of Man rycen on, and Teign ngrace, are 
I doubt not,’ w 
Briti cr Phenician, Lead was alfo familiar to'the weftern 
Britons. at_ the Danmon‘ans had iron-works is plain 
from ar, who mentions the exigua copia of our iron in 
the maritime parts: the iron-pits of Blackdown were, I 
conceive, ee Britifh, aod were afterwards worked by 
the Roman 4 He 
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: another kind is 
t 
and a third fort is very clofe grained ; 
fraGure, parkliag and uneven, and very rich in filver: the 
latter ee has ‘been obtained. in plenty at the Beer-ferris 
mines. 
and in various 
, sxborefeent, and 
t Upton 
inter- 
cabundsne at i mpfo 
water ery numerous in this county, and are 
chiefly of - ceicie ade though they have not in any 
particular degree been appropriated to medicinal purpofes. 
The ftrongett fprings of ar defeription he at Gubb’s 
Wall, near r Cleave ; ; at Bella Marth, n ing’s- bbe geal ; 
at Ilfington, in the vicinity of Totnels; at 
ring at the ine piece 
is faid to be more ftrongly impregnated with iron than any 
in eae 
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onfhi re abounds with rivers: fome of them flow north- 
tl 3 and others fouthward into 
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cluded among the Devonhhire rivers, as being equally com- 
mon to this county as to Cornwall, but is more generally 
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eonfidered as: belgaging - to the Jatter from rifing within’ ite 
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The Na inhabitants of ‘soni were the Danmos 
iis Under the- Roman fubjugation, this county was in- 
cluded in the ate: called Britannia Prima:* by the Paes 
it was made part of the kingddm of Weffex; and fo con 
tinued till the neal otaaiey of the Saxon fates, into one 
monarcky undef | 
Devonthire i is. in the ace of Exeter, and in the weftern 
circuit. 
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49 m » 394 parifhes, 61 
343,009 iahabitante. "The members returned to parliament 
are twenty-fix : two for the county, and two for each of t 
following places; Exeter, ‘l'otnefs, Plymouth, Oakhamp- 
ton, Barnitaple, Piyniptoa, Honiton, Taviftock, seria 
Dartmouth, Bere-Alfton and Tiverton. The county ah 
twenty-one parts of the land-tax; and fuppli ie3 nes men 
the militia. The affizes are hel xetere Ma vihall’e 
ural oo ‘id the Polwhele’s Hif- 
tory of Devon __ Beauties of England and Wales. 
*KEVONSHIRI NG. in Agriculture, a name formerly ap- 
plied to the - of paring and burnin ng. 
DEVOTION, of devaio, from devoveo, I confeerate, a 
fincere, ardent worfhip o d 
nf. Jurieu defines devotion, a, fofteni og and yielding 
t, with an inward conflation, ‘which the fouls of be- 
ng to ite Gorman) 
is the lively exercife of thofe Ps which we owe to 
e Supreme Being, comprehending feveral emotions of the 
ees which all terminate on the fame great objet. The 
chief of thefe are veneration, gratitude, defire, and refigna- 
Veneration is an affecti d of awe and 
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the od, as the sop tion of truft’ and hopes 
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to each of the former, into which they are in danger of pre- 
cipitating themfelves. Thus, the horror of fuperitition has 
fometimes produced contempt for all external inftitutions ; 
as if it were poflible for religion to fubfitt in the world, with. 
out forms of worfhip, or public acknowledgement of God. 
Others, well affected in the main to = caule of goodnels, 
obferving that perfons of a devout turn have at times beca 
carried away, by warm affes a into unjuftifiable — 
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