THE HOME OF THE WILD RED DEER, ii 



Hills, terminating in Haddon Hill in the deep woods 

 below which couches many a lordly stag. From 

 almost at our very feet a valley finds its tortuous 

 course to the southward. The Quarme Water runs 

 down it to meet the Exe coming from the westward, 

 and we can trace the deep-wooded valley, down 

 which their united waters flow, extending for miles 

 and miles, till it is lost in the dim distance, where a 

 depression in the high ground far away shows where 

 Exeter lies hidden, and where the tiny stream which 

 rises almost at our feet flows out a broad and 

 stately river into the English Channel. A very faint 

 line of hills a little to the east of this is the high land 

 above Lyme Regis, while the curious V-shaped gap 

 which is visible in very clear weather shows where 

 Sidmouth basks in sunshine on the seashore. 



Passing westwards one sees the bold heathery 

 heights of Winsford Hill, some 1,500 ft. in elevation, 

 dividing the dense coverts in the Exe Valley from 

 the denser w^oodlands in the valley of the Bade. 

 Beyond that the long purple line of Anstey Common, 

 Molland Common, and South Molton Ridge marks 

 the southern boundary of what may truly be called 

 the Exmoor country, but the eye passes beyond 

 them, and is arrested by a far-away ragged outline 

 standing high against the sky and getting wilder and 

 more ragged towards the west, which one wants no 

 guide book to tell one is Dartmoor, with Yes Tor 

 and Cawsand Beacon towering above the general 

 line. A little west of Dartmoor we may, with Juck, 



