Moorland - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

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"I tell you it is all as new to me as it is to Dr. Watson, and I'm as keen as possible to see the moor."

"Are you? Then your wish is easily granted, for there is your first sight of the moor," said Dr. Mortimer, pointing out of the carriage window.

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream."

Moorland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Moorland or moor is a type of habitat, in the Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome, found in upland areas, characterised by low growing vegetation on acidic soils."