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I have found very little to add to my own accounts of them; not much to corroborate; and nothing to contradict.

The number of pages four hundred and eighty.

A map of the County; colored, to show the different varieties of soils:-the veins of limestone,-deposited beneath them, being judiciously marked with the graver; distinguishing those pointed out, by Mr. VANCOUVER, in North Devonshire, &c. from those of the South Hams, &c. which were previously marked, in a similar manner, on Mr. FRASER'S map:-a valuable addition, this, to a map of the soils of a County or District.

Twenty or thirty other engravings!—of much less consideration;-though some of them are well drawn, and well executed; and, by some purchasers, will therefore be admired, perhaps extolled; "as the best part of the book"!

NATURAL ECONOMY.

EXTENT.

XTENT.-P. 1. "The most modern calculation extant (or at least such as has been within the reach of the Author of this Report), assigns an area of 1,595,309 statute acres, or 2493 square miles, including watercourses, for the surface territory of the county."

ELEVATION.-P. 278. "The relative heights of the most prominent and lofty points upon or near the Forest," (of Dartmore) "with well known eminences in the surrounding country, must afford considerable satisfaction, as the result of data deduced from the trigonometrical survey, conducted by Colonel Mudge, and to whose politeness the Surveyor is much indebted for the important communication. These heights are all in reference to the common level of the sea. Where they are returned certain, there can be no appeal beyond this statement; and where the return is made probable only, it will, in most cases, be found within a few feet of the existing elevation, and, at all events, sufficiently accurate for our purpose.

Butterton Hill, near Ivy Bridge,
Rippon Tor, east of ditto,.......
North end of Cawsand Beacon,

Feet.

1201 certain. 1545 ditto. 1792 ditto.

Highest part of Dartmoor, called Cawsand bog,

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2090 probable.

Summit, 5347 feet.
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Mean height of the Forest of Dartmoor,

1782 feet.

"The

"The height of well known hills in the country below, and within reach of the moor-winds, are,

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Mean height of the most commanding situations in the country below Dartmoor, ....

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737 feet."

CLIMATURE.-North Devonshire.-P. 4. "The climate here, although very indulgent in respect to many parts of England, is by no means comparable to the temperature which characterizes the seasons in the southern parts of the county."

Yet it is related, in the succeeding page, that "the Dutch broad-leaved double-flowering myrtle, as well as the more delicate aromatic and narrow-leaved sorts, constantly flourish in the open air, and are found not unfrequently to constitute a part of the garden hedges." And we are further told, in p. 7, that rock cantelope melons-in size and flavor equal to any raised under glass (in Bidiford or its neighbourhood) were produced "in the open air."-I have not, I confess, been so fortunate, as to see or hear of any thing to compare with those extraordinary circumstances, in the most favored situations, near the southern coast.

SOILS. The subjoined are Mr. Vancouver's districts of soils; taken from his map.-See aforegoing.

1. "North Devon."

2.2. "Free or dunstone."

3. 3. "Moor lands."

4. "South Hams; dunstone, limestone, slate and clay." 5. "Granite gravel."

6. "Red sandy loam, marl, grout and dunstone, including the flints of Haldon and Woodbury."

7. "Chalk, flint, sandstone, limestone, &c."

8. "Dartmore Forest."

The part of Exmoor Forest, which extends within the

fortuitous

A few fragments that have been scattered from the Dorsetshire

Hills.

I have found very little to add to my own accounts of the not much to corroborate; and nothing to contradict. The number of pages four hundred and eighty.

A map of the County; colored, to show the difer varieties of soils:-the veins of limestone,-dep beneath them, being judiciously marked with the gro distinguishing those pointed out, by Mr. VANCOUVER I North Devonshire, &c. from those of the South H &c. which were previously marked, in a similar ma on Mr. FRASER'S map:-a valuable addition, this, w map of the soils of a County or District.

Twenty or thirty other engravings!-of much less sideration; though some of them are well draw, well executed; and, by some purchasers, will therefor admired, perhaps extolled; "as the best part of the boci

NATURAL ECONOMY.

EXTENT

XTENT.-P. 1. "The most modern calculation es tant (or at least such as has been within the reach the Author of this Report), assigns an area of 1,595,0 statute acres, or 2493 square miles, including water courses, for the surface territory of the county."

ELEVATION.-P. 278. "The relative heights of the mos prominent and lofty points upon or near the Forest," Dartmore) "with well known eminences in the surround ing country, must afford considerable satisfaction, as the reIsult of data deduced from the trigonometrical survey, conducted by Colonel Mudge, and to whose politenes the Surveyor is much indebted for the important co These heights are all in reference to the

munication.

common level of the sea.

Where they are returned cer tain, there can be no appeal beyond this statement; and where the return is made probable only, it will, in most cases, be found within a few feet of the existing elevation and, at all events, sufficiently accurate for our purpose.

Butterton Hill, near Ivy Bridge,
Rippon Tor, east of ditto,

.......

North end of Cawsand Beacon,

Highest part of Dartmoor, called Caw

of Caw-}

sand bog,

Feet.
1201 certain.

1545 ditto. 1792 ditto.

2090 probable,

Summit, 5347 feet.

Mean height of the Forest of Dartmoor,

3

1782 feet.

"The

"The height of well known hills in the country below, nd within reach of the moor-winds, are,

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737 feet."

- Mean height of the most commanding situations in the country below Dartmoor,

CLIMATURE.-North Devonshire.-P. 4. "The climate here, although very indulgent in respect to many parts of England, is by no means comparable to the temperature which characterizes the seasons in the southern parts of the county."

Yet it is related, in the succeeding page, that "the Dutch broad-leaved double-flowering myrtle, as well as the more delicate aromatic and narrow-leaved sorts, constantly flourish in the open air, and are found not unfrequently to constitute a part of the garden hedges." And we are further told, in p. 7, that rock cantelope melons-in size and flavor equal to any raised under glass (in Bidiford or its neighbourhood) were produced in the open air."-I have not, I confess, been so fortunate, as to see or hear of any thing to compare with those extraordinary circumstances, in the most favored situations, near the southern coast.

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SOILS. The subjoined are Mr. Vancouver's districts of soils; taken from his map.-See aforegoing.

1. "North Devon."

2.2. "Free or dunstone."

3. 3. "Moor lands."

4. "South Hams; dunstone, limestone, slate and clay." 5. "Granite gravel."

6. "Red sandy loam, marl, grout and dunstone, including the flints of Haldon and Woodbury."

7. "Chalk, flint, sandstone, limestone, &c."

8. "Dartmore Forest."

The part of Exmoor Forest, which extends within the

fortuitous

*A few fragments that have been scattered from the Dorsetshire Hills.

fortuitous limits of Devonshire, wears the same color, on this Reporter's map, as the more valuable lands of "North Devon."-That bleak, black, barren margin of the forest appears as green as the land of myrtles and melons.

Not only the soils of Devonshire; but the other prominent subjects, belonging to its natural, political, and rural economy, are reported by the above-enumerated Dis tricts;-are, of course, repeatedly brought forward; without, perhaps, furnishing the reader with any increase of information; changes of well rung words being his only recompense.

The section, "Soil," by passing, in effect, through seven distinct Reports, is lengthened to two sheets of letterpress. I have bestowed some time on examining it; and the following are the particulars which, I conceive, are proper for insertion, here.

P. 11. (North Devon.) " In those places where the upper parts of the rock are of a splintry texture, rising below in rhomboidal or cubical fragments, exhibiting in their fracture a dun, or rather liver-coloured appearance, and the small stones on the surface are found to be encrusted with a brown, or rather yellowish kind of ochre, it is generally called free, or Dunstone land. * Here the soil is of a good depth upon the shillot; is of a bright hazel colour, of a tender friable nature, and generally esteemed to be the best corn land. When the rock crops out in very thin lamina of a smooth and glossy appearance, with a rotten shivery fracture, it forms the basis of the soil or surface-mould, the subsoil of which is continued to various depths, according to the resistance the under stratum of shaley rock may have presented to the slow decomposing process which this species of rock seems gradually to be undergoing, and thence forms a stratum of brown-yellow, or blueish-coloured clay, corresponding in colour with the rock below, and from which all the clayey parts of this country are unquestionably derived.

"The soil here, from the coolness and moisture of its bottom, is generally considered more favourable to the culture of grass than of corn. The surface of the un. enclosed and extensive moor-lands or commons, which occupy so large a proportion of this district, lie generally at a greater distance from the shillot or shaley understratum before described, than in the cultivated parts of the district. In some instances, the substratum of the

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*Good land (deep rich soil, on absorbent subsoil) might be deemed the best definition of "Dunstone."

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