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Title: Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1859-1933
Subjects: Horses Deer hunting Hunting -- England Exmoor
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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-marked Stags killed between 1855 and 1885 .... 287 PAGEI LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Stag, Hind, and Calf (Hollowcomb) . . Frontispiece Though possibly the Traveller might prefer to linger IN the Park 4 I. Simonsbath. 2. The Valley of the Bray . . .21Master, his Brother, and Mr. Brutton rode extremely BOLD 29 The Clerical Division preparing for Action (Cloutsham Fields) 39 I. Baronsdown. 2. Pixton ...... 43 And there stood the Stalwart Form of Mr. Bisset . 87There are Soft Places in the Moor . . . .101 I. Brow, Bay, Trey, and two in top one side (see Appendix A, Sept. 17th, 1875). 2. Brow, Bay, Trey, and three in top both sides (see Appendix A, Sept. 7th, 18S1). One-ninth of natural size. 3. Castle Hill (see p. 4) . . . . . . . . .112 138 159 175182 212 Roused in the Open (Badgworthy) At Bay (above Hole Water) ..... Challenger Ware Calf ! (Hoccombe) The Pack is at her in a Moment (Horner Water) With the Pack at his Haunches all along the Beach M A PDEVON .^- SOMERSET STAC-HUNTINC COUNTRY.
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RECORDS OF STAG-HUNTING ON EXMOOR. CHAPTER I. THE DOMAIN OF THE RED DEER. The traveller making his journey along the NorthDevon Railway in search of the lovely scenery of theNorth Devon coast, can hardly fail to notice thatshortly before reaching Eggesford, about midwaybetween Exeter and Barnstaple, the line begins to runalong a deep wooded valley, with a river flowingwestward down it. There Is much crossing and re-crossing of this river between Eggesford and Barn-staple, the stream almost doubling itself suddenlysome fourteen or fifteen miles short of the latter town,through the influx of another river, which comespouring in from a wooded valley on the north side.The combined rivers then flow on in one statelystream, broader and broader as it nears the sea, pastthe pretty town of Barnstaple, beneath a long bridgeof many small arches, to the golden sands and the B 2 STAG-HUNTING ON EXMOOR. leaping bar which Kingsley loved so well; justshort of which another broad stream comes in from

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