BY S. BARING-GOULD WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS SECOND EDITION METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON First Published July 1900 Second Edition January 1907 TO THE MEMORY OF MY UNCLE THE LATE THOMAS GEORGE BOND ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF DARTMOOR EXPLORATION [Pg viii] [Pg ix]...

At the request of my publishers I have written A Book of Dartmoor . I had already dealt with this upland district in two chapters in my Book of the West , vol. i., "Devon." But in their opinion this wild and wondrous region deserved more particular treatment than I had been able to accord to it in the limited space at my disposal in the above-mentioned book. I have now entered with some fulness, but by no means exhaustively, into the subject; and for those who desire a closer acquaintance with,

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