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World: Europe: Britain: England: Devonshire

Southwestern county of England, pop. 661,314 [1901]. Valuable pasture and cattle country, and fisheries are important.

[JT]


IDEN: Miss Mary Southerland wore her hat tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.


SILV: Dartmoor (and King's Pyland) are located in Devonshire.

Holmes: "My friend and I return to town by the night-express. We have had a charming little breath of your beautiful Dartmoor air."


HOUN: Dartmoor is located in Devonshire and is the setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles.


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