CHAPTER IV. 



THE FEKNY MOORLANDS. 



grandeur of the Devonshire 

 moorland scenery almost defies 

 description. The Fern hunter, 

 searching for his favourites 

 amongst the ferny haunts of the 

 4 Fern paradise,' will derive the 

 keenest enjoyment from a ramble on the 

 moors. Away from the town on the 

 mountain side, with the free blue sky 

 overhead, surrounded by wooded steeps 

 which descend swiftly to the valleys below ! Or 

 away in those valleys where the boulder-strewn 

 beds of the rushing moorland streams send forth 

 their wild music to the delighted ear : wandering 

 from hill-side to valley, and from valley to hill- 



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