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Excerpt from A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy, Vol. 1 of 3: Its Natural History, Manners, Customs, Superstitions, Scenery, Antiquities, Biography of Eminent Persons, &C. &C.; In a Series of Letters to Robert Southey, Esq.
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