A description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; its natural history, manners, customs, superstitions, scenery, antiquities, biography of eminent persons, etcin a series of letters to Robert Southey . situated about five miles fromTavistock, we visited to view the j^an already men-tioned.* It hes to the left of the Moreton road,near the river Walkham. A small rock, or tor, pro-bably little Mistor, is near it: this we ascended:it liad nothiuii; but its natural, yet regular appear-ance, almost like that of masonry, to attract ournotice. On continuing our ride hence, w
A description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; its natural history, manners, customs, superstitions, scenery, antiquities, biography of eminent persons, etcin a series of letters to Robert Southey . situated about five miles fromTavistock, we visited to view the j^an already men-tioned.* It hes to the left of the Moreton road,near the river Walkham. A small rock, or tor, pro-bably little Mistor, is near it: this we ascended:it liad nothiuii; but its natural, yet regular appear-ance, almost like that of masonry, to attract ournotice. On continuing our ride hence, we found the * The popular legend respecting IMistor pan is, that it was formedby the , and used by him as a frying-pan on particular occasions. 246 MisTOR. [let. ground swampy, and before we reached Great Mis-tor, crossed a stream work of considerable there arc four or five masses of regularly piledrocks, on one of which, about the centre of the tor, isa basin, the largest we had yet seen, three feet indiameter, and six inches in depth. The bottom wasflat and smooth. It had a lip, with a channel to thenorth-east. Near it, on the same ridge, is a singu-larly formed rock; from its appearance, we concluded. it was a logan stone, but tried in vain to move examined every part of the tor, but could findno other work of art: if there ever had been anj, itwas probably destroyed some years ago by the law-less rout of idle yoiuig men, Avho sallied out and pur-posely overthrew every rock they were able to movein this neighbourhood. Whilst we were employedin these investigations, we sheltered ourselves froma shower of rain, by entering a chasm amid therocks, and made them echo with the voice of song. The next extract is from the same Journal, keptby Mr. Bray during his excursions on the moor. TUMULI AND CIRCLES NEAR MISTOR. Having occasion to pass over Dartmoor, without XIV.] MISTOR. 247 any intention of renewing my researches on it at thattime, I thought I observed
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