RED DEER LAND. 



long passage of time down from mediaeval 

 days to our own, and it was from thence 

 that they spread abroad under favourable 

 conditions. It remains the centre of Red 

 Deer Land, and without a clear idea of 

 this remarkable district no one can com- 

 prehend how it is that the deer are so 

 really wild. 



The moors of the Exe river are not flat 

 stretches of marshland, but hills of great 

 height covered with heather. The term 

 mountains may almost be applied to them 

 numbers of the ridges are twice the height 

 of Beachy Head or the Dyke at Brighton 

 Dunkery Beacon is three times as high. But 

 the conformation of the country is such that 

 on entering it the elevations do not seem 

 very unusual, for as it is all high and raised 

 the eye has nothing with which to contrast 

 it. When on the moor it appears an im- 

 mense table-land, intersected by deep narrow 



