A Book of Dartmoor by Sabine Baring-Gould — Read

Dartmoor from a distance -- Elevation -- The tors -- Old / lake-beds -- "Clitters" -- The boldest tors -- Luminous moss -- The / whortleberry -- Composition of granite -- Wolfram -- The "forest" and / its surrounding commons -- Venville parishes -- Encroachment of / culture on the moor -- The four quarters -- A drift -- Attempts to / reclaim the moor -- Flint finds -- The inclosing of commons.

Seen from a distance, as for instance from Winkleigh churchyard, or from Exbourne, Dartmoor presents a stately appearance, as a ridge of blue mountains rising boldly against the sky out of rolling, richly wooded under-land.