 | Tristram Risdon - Devon (England) - 1811 - 548 pages
...Plimstoke they shall have. " The third is some acres of wood and trees, that are a fathom about, and vet no taller than a man may touch to top with his hand,...tenants dwelling in and about the moor, which are called Faifield Men, in ancient times Fenp field, and these be the king's special tenants,, pay him... | |
 | Henry Edmund Carrington - Devonport (England) - 1843 - 364 pages
...pursues its solitary course. It is described by llisdon as " some acres of woode the trees of which are a fathom about, and yet no taller than a man may touch the top with his hand." Our excursion to this singular feature of the moor and the neighbouring objects... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - Dartmoor (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...Risdon's " three remarkable things " in the Forest of Dartmoor. By him, it is described as consisting of " some acres of wood and trees that are a fathom about, and yet no taller than a man may touch the top with his hand." The general description of this third wonder of Dartmoor, is in sufficient... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - Okehampton (England) - 1889 - 318 pages
...seen in the moor where he was frozen to death; the third is some acres of wood and trees, that are of a fathom about, and yet no taller than a man may touch to top with his hand.—Risdon. JThe original name was Dynant: Oliver de Dynant, their Breton ancestor, was Lord of... | |
 | Beatrix F. Cresswell - 1903 - 196 pages
...is, in truth, the most remarkable thing on all Dartmoor, with perhaps the exception of Post Bridge, "some acres of wood and trees that are a fathom about,...taller than a man may touch to top with his hand." So it was in Risdon's time; so it appears now; so, strangest of all, it was at the date of the Norman... | |
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The third is some acres of wood and trees, that are a fathom about, and yet no taller than a man may touch to top with his hand... 