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Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt and Princetown -- A desolate spot -- The / prisons -- Escapes -- A burglary -- Merrivale Bridge and its group / of remains -- Staple Tor -- Walk up the Walkham to Merrivale / Bridge -- Harter Tor -- Black Tor logan stone -- Tor Royal -- Wistman's / Wood -- Bairdown Man -- Langstone Moor Circle -- Fice's / Well -- Whitchurch -- Archpriests -- Heath and heather -- Heather / ale -- White Heath.
King Louis XIV. selected the most barren and intractable bit of land out of which to create Versailles, with its gardens, plantations, and palace; and Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt chose the most inhospitable site for the planting of a town. Sir Thomas was Black Rod, and Warden of the Stannaries. He was a man of a sanguine temperament, for he calculated on reaping gold where he sowed shillings, and that in Dartmoor bogs.