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6 DARTMOOR SCENERY. 
feel some touch of the sublime and grand; the hills 
with their awe-begetting tors, the sterile plains 
bestrewed with granite blocks, the mountain vallies, 
the ravines, the mountain torrents, the cascades, the 
morasses, the never-failing springs, all eminently 
incline the heart toward the great and good. Let 
the visitor ascend one of the hills amongst which 
his course his bent, and he will then discover that 
the majesty and sublimity of the scenery he had 
travelled to witness, was only to be fully attained 
by that labour ; should he have climbed to one of 
the tors in the central part of the moor, he will 
behold around him a multiplicity of elevations 
assuming at their summits every curious and fan- 
tastic form ; the eye is relieved by nothing but the 
beautiful lichens which clothe the rocks amidst 
which he is then situated, but the mind may be led 
to grand conceptions of the earth he inhabits, and 
to a due appreciation of himself as a moral being, 
peculiar in respect of his relation to the Divine 
Architect of all earthly scenery and productions ; 
should he have gone to the summit of one of the 
hills on the border of the moor, his eye will be 
refreshed towards the south by scenes incomparable 
for loveliness,—woods, rivers, meadows, corn-fields, 
and even the sea are perchance presented to his 
view at one and the same time ; at the western 
limit he may gain a sight of the Tamar in its tor- 
tuous course, with its green banks of quiet pasture, 
its bordermg woods and its over-topping hills ; at 
Dewerstone, at the south-west of the granite district, 
he looks down immediately on a moorland river in 
its tumultuous and hurried course over and amidst 
the intercepting rocks, an ameliorated vegetation, a 
dense wood, aromantic bridge and adjacent dwelling, 
distant hamlets and their surrounding agricultural 
operations; lastly, an unique and unparalleled scene 
may be witnessed at the southernmost hill of the 
