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Remains of the tin-streamers -- Dartmoor stream tin -- Lode tin -- The / dweller in the hut circles did not work the tin -- The tin / trade with Britain -- How tin was extracted -- A furnace -- Deep / Swincombe -- Blowing-houses -- The wheel introduced in the reign of / Elizabeth -- Japanese primitive methods -- Numerous blowing-house / ruins -- The tin-mould stones -- Merrivale Bridge -- King's Oven -- Its / present condition -- Mining.
No one who has eyes in his head, and considers what he sees, if he has been on Dartmoor, can have failed to observe how that every stream-bed has been turned over, and how that every hollow in a hillside is furrowed.