SCENERY OF THE SOUTH HAMS. 
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tract we have been thus glancing at,—from this 
elevation termed the Western Beacon, or rather 
“ from Three Barrow Tor near it, there is a most 
surprising view from Portland in Dorsetshire, to 
the Lizard in Cornwall, and from the skirts of 
Dartmoor, to Blackdown Hills in Somersetshire ; 
in front, nearer the eye, the South Hams of Devon, 
from the Teign, to the Tamar, the estuary of the 
Yealm, Plymouth Sound, Mount Edgecumbe, and 
the British Channel.” Having attempted this ge¬ 
neral description of the scenery of Dartmoor which 
to those unacquainted with it, may convey some idea 
of the reality, we shall for the present quit this 
portion of our district, bidding it farewell in the 
language of immortal Carrington— 
“-Ye forms sublime, 
Adieu, that people the great Moor ;—the tor, 
The hallowed cairn, the everlasting rocks, 
Moulded by time into a million shapes 
Of beauty and of grandeur ;—aud adieu 
Ye voices that upon the wanderer’s ear 
Ever refreshing come ;—the Row of rill, 
And music of the cataract, and leap 
Of mountain-stream, and sigh of mountain breeze, 
And, scared by the intruder man, the rush 
Of the wild bird." 
In truth, here in the very wilds of Dartmoor, the 
Philosopher adds to his speculations new impulses 
and new ideas;—here the mind of the Poet has been 
invigorated and incited to new strains ;—here the 
mind of the Religionist been elevated to fresh awe 
and a fresh spirit of devotion. 
Having now examined the wild scenery of Dart¬ 
moor, it is our next design to make a transit into 
a district different in every way—the South Hams 
of Devon, styled from their beauty, and by common 
