DARTMOOR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 15

DARTMOOR.

ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR WALL. At a meeting of tlie Wost of England Society last evening Mr W. Conibeare presided over an attendance of about 80 members. ' Professoi Arnold Wall gave an address about Dartmoor, treating in particular of its position, its topography, the reasons for the attractions it has for so many men. its general history-, and its natural history. The chief attraction of Dartmoor, said the professor was the fact that there it was so easy to get away froip the rest of men. It was probably one of the few remaining places in England where it was still possible to be absolutely solitary, tor oven in the famed Lake Country there were crowds of trippers., His own liking for the solitudes of Dartmoor had enabled him to live so happily here »n New Zealand, where it was so. much easier to get away from the crowd. The professor also spoke of the sombre light on Dartmoor, _ and the beauty that was often in its moods, and also of its dangers, especially from the many bogs. Mention was mado ot the ancient monuments in the form of circles of stones, or cromlechs, and of the various writers who had either described the life of meij living near Dartmoor, or had shown the spirit of the moor in their works. At the conclusion of the address a hearty vote of thanks qras passed to Professor Wall, and the ■ remainder of the evening was spent _ in general entertainment and "dancing.