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on a tablet below the antlers. Among the finest 

 collections of horns, I may mention that at Castle 

 Hill, near South Molton, the seat of Earl Fortescue ; 

 that at Baron's Down, near Dulverton, the seat of 

 Stucley Lucas, Esq.; those at Holnicote, the summer 

 residence of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., in the 

 vale of Porlock ; at Worth, the seat of John Worth, 

 Esq., near Tiverton; at Stevenstone, near Torrington, 

 the ancient hall of the Rolle family, at which spot a pack 

 of staghounds was kept 140 years since, and now the 

 property of the Hon. Mark Rolle, a staunch sports- 

 man and M.F.H. ; and at Pixton Park, the property 

 of the Earl of Carnarvon, and at present tenanted by 

 the Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, 

 M. Fen wick Bisset, Esq., whose collection, for the 

 short time he has had the management, is second to 

 none. There are some good heads at Youlstone, 

 Sir Arthur Chichester's seat, near Barnstaple, and a 

 few antlers, not unworthy of inspection, grace my 

 own humble abode. The collection at Holnicote 

 was unfortunately injured by an act of vandalism 

 committed by a servant in the present Sir T. D. 

 Acland's time. The heads were fastened to the 

 walls in the ample stables, and were noble and 

 interesting ornaments to the stalls, but the groom, 

 taking it into his head one day that they interfered 



