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of a few short visits to the moor, repeated during the warm season at more or less distant intervals. We have considered merely the physical influence of the climate of Dartmoor, but this is here as in most examples of advantageous changes of the sort, only a part of the altered circumstances in which its visitors are placed. The freshness of unreclaimed nature, the somewhat savage, but yet, in fine weather, cheerful wildness of that wavy expanse of moorland, with its tors for breakers; the absence of all accompaniments of lowland life, produce an effect of novelty, which stimulates the mind as the air does the body, and prompts to movement and activity. Neither is there any lack of objects on which to employ these energies;-the trout stream to the fisherman, the British village, the Druidical Circus, the ancient wood to the antiquarian; the zoology, botany, geology, to the naturalist, are all peculiar, and will tempt each to exercise his several taste. The mere freedom to roam on the greensward, or to climb the rock, will be object enough to the young. The use of the horse, pony, or donkey, will be desirable for those who are deficient in muscular power, or short-breathed. For the purpose of realising these advantages, no situation on Dartmoor can come at all into competition with Prince-town. Whilst it is so placed as to possess fully the characteristics of the climate of the moor, being more than fourteen hundred feet above the sea, and in no way confined, it furnishes every comfort desirable for such valetudinarians as have been described:-a good and well-conducted principal inn, besides some decent smaller ones; respectable lodging houses, an Omnibus between Exeter and Plymouth, with a ready access to Tavistock. It is proper to notice the existence of several chalybeate springs in the neighborhood of Princetown, the best of which is near the Officers' barracks: the use of these under proper direction is calculated to

harmonize with, and strengthen the good effects of the climate. "The Prison when occupied, was (after the cessation of a fever, which must have occurred anywhere under the same circumstances) as healthy, if not more so, than any other in the country."

A carriage-road conducts the curious from Prince-town, to Mr. Johnson's granite quarries, by some of the most delightful views which can be afforded by the moorland district. Successive tors vie with each other in grandeur, until they are replaced by the blue Cornish hills, with the promontory of Mount Edgcumbe, and the silvery line of the ocean in the distance. The quarries to which we now direct our attention are hidden from view, until the spectator is close upon them. At one moment he looks over the dreary moor without observing a human being; in another an immense excavation presents itself studded with workmen, as busily employed as bees in the hive: some are boring holes in the flinty rock; others are filling the cavaties with powder; some are chipping the rude blocks into shape; others are lifting their ponderous weight by cranes and levers; horses, carts, and railroad waggons, are in constant employment, to convey away the heavy masses of stone, (some twenty feet in length) which have been made available in the principal public works, lately carried on in the metropolis: the Post Office and London Bridge, were constructed of this strong material, and at present it is furnished for building the new houses of parliament. A substantial building of granite has been erected for the clerk of the work: it is perfectly original in its design and workmanship, and seems as firm as the rock itself: this, with the houses of the workmen, and the shops of the blacksmiths, forms quite a little hamlet in the midst of the busy scene. Three hundred men were recently in constant employment on the spot: their work is very laborious, as the granite is very coarse-grained, and

brittle. The blacksmiths are always busily employed in sharpening the tools blunted by the stone.

A difficult road across the moor, suited only to travellers on horseback, conducts by a route of two miles, to Merrivale-bridge.

Having thus returned to the road by which we set out, it is perhaps necessary to conclude a long day's excursion: yet I would fain if my limbs permitted, remain longer on the moor: I feel how inadequate is a short space to describe the wonders of this interesting region. A week's sojourn at Prince-town wonld alone enable a traveller to make a thorough acquaintance with Dartmoor; and even then, the beauties in the neighborhood of Moreton-hampstead would remain unvisited.

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