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Abundance of remains of primeval inhabitants -- No trace of / Briton or Saxon on Dartmoor -- None of Paleolithic man -- The / Neolithic man who occupied it -- Account of his migrations -- His / presence in Ireland, in China, in Algeria -- A pastoral / people -- The pottery -- The arrival of the Celt in Britain in / two waves -- The Gael -- The Briton -- Introduction of iron -- Mode / of life of the original occupants of the moor -- The / huts -- Pounds -- Cooking -- Tracklines -- Enormous numbers who lived on / Dartmoor -- A peaceable people.
Probably no other tract of land of the same extent in England contains such numerous and well-preserved remains of prehistoric antiquity as Dartmoor.