SMELTING TIN IN JAPAN 119 A PRIMITIVE HINGE 133 INSCRIPTION ON SOURTON CROSS 142 INSCRIBED STONE, STICKLEPATH 150 PLAN OF STONE ROWS NEAR CAISTOR ROCK 161 " " GRIMSPOUND 166 " " HUT AT GRIMSPOUND 169 FRAGMENT OF POTTERY 177 ORNAMENTED POTTERY 179 TOM PEARCE'S GHOSTLY MARE 191 CRAZING-MILL STONE, UPPER GOBBETTS 204 METHOD OF USING THE MILL-STONES 205 CHANCEL CAPITAL, MEAVY 237 BLOWING-HOUSE BELOW BLACK TOR 271 DARTMOOR CHAPTER I. BOGS The rivers that flow from Dartmoor--The bogs are their cradles--A tailor lost on the moor--A man in Aune Mire--Some of the worst bogs--Cranmere Pool--How the bogs are formed--Adventure in Redmoor Bog--Bog plants--The buckbean--Sweet gale--Furze--Yellow broom--Bee-keeping. Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon. The Exe, indeed, has its source in Exmoor, and it disdains to receive any affluents from Dartmoor; and the Torridge takes its rise hard by the sea at Wellcombe, within a rifle-shot of the Bristol Channel, nevertheless it makes a graceful sweep--tenders a salute--to Dartmoor, and in return receives the liberal flow of the Okement. The Otter and the Axe, being in the far east of the county, rise in the range of hills that form the natural frontier between Devon and Somerset. But all the other considerable streams look back upon Dartmoor as their mother. And what a mother! She sends them forth limpid and pure, full of laughter and leap, of flash and brawl. She does not discharge them laden with brown mud, as the Exe, nor turned like the waters of Egypt to blood, as the Creedy. A prudent mother, she feeds them regularly, and with considerable deliberation. Her vast bogs act as sponges, absorbing the winter rains, and only leisurely and prudently does she administer the hoarded supply, so that the rivers never run dry in the hottest and most rainless summers.