A Quote by Sabine Baring-Gould

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.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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Sabine Baring-Gould
English - Novelist
January 28, 1834 - January 2, 1924

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