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wood, and through Stokewood, reached Bratton Down ; 

 here they viewed him to Brokenburrow. From this he 

 took them on to Chapman's Burrows and Furzehill ; 

 then lay fast in a small stream outside Furzehill wall, 

 and jumped up in view ; they raced him on to Sparanger 

 Common, and then forward to Cheriton ; they now 

 crossed for Brendon Barton, and ran him over Scob 

 Hill, and to water at Malsmead, and crossed to the 

 Countisbury side, and beat down stream to Lynmouth 

 Bridge ; here a check of an hour took place ; he had 

 backed it in the middle of the water, and lay fast sunk 

 in some deep pool ; the hounds were cast down and up 

 the river for a considerable distance, but could not hit 

 him ; at length on trying down a second time, they 

 broke from the water as if in view, just at the place 

 they had first faulted him, evidently showing that he 

 had lain sunk in some part of the river, and then after 

 the pack had passed and repassed him, had broken 

 forth. They ran him at a sharp pace up over Countis- 

 bury Cleave and on to Coscombe, and killed. Many 

 a horse and rider stayed at Lynton and Lynmouth after 

 this chase from inability to get home. 



September iT^th. — Found a stag in Chargot Wood, 

 near Luxborough ; laid the pack on him by Withel- 

 burrows ; he stopped in a deep pool on the hill to soil, 

 and the hounds came in on him and raced him in view 

 over Brendon Hill for four miles ; he turned to the 

 right at Raleigh's Cross for Clatworthy Wood and came 

 to water; he here again loitered until the pack came 

 up to him. He now broke again to the right straight 

 for Wiveliscombe, but turned back for Chipstable, and 

 then on to Shillingford, and here lay down in a hedge 



