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1 Here are two moorland farmhouses, High Tor and Foulmire.
2 I wished to go in that direction and to search the tor, but it was some distance away.
3 Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
4 A haze lay low upon the farthest sky-line, out of which jutted the fantastic shapes of Belliver and Vixen Tor.
5 There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
6 But I had my own experience for a guide since it had shown me the man himself standing upon the summit of the Black Tor.
7 We found a short valley between rugged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass.
8 The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
9 Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
10 The moon shone on it, and it looked like a great shimmering ice-field, with the heads of the distant tors as rocks borne upon its surface.
11 I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.