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woods, is a clear, and generally a rapid stream, 

 containing besides its trout some salmon-peel and 

 eels. The Hon. Mark Rolle preserves the Otter 

 from Tipton down to Clamourbridge, and there is 

 one ticket to be had by a visitor at the Imperial 

 Hotel, Exmouth, and one at the Rolle Hotel, 

 Biidleigh Salterton. Ottery St. Mary, a delight- 

 fully situated town, was the birthplace of Coleridge, 

 who alludes affectionately to the Otter in one of his 

 sonnets. The pastoral poet, Browne, too once lived 

 at Ottery St. Mary. 



The Kxe is "a most beautiful river," says Skrine, 

 "rapid in its origin, but soon disporting itself in 

 a tranquil stream amidst verdant meadows, The 

 and surrounded by a well-cultivated dis- Exe 

 trict." The stream takes its rise in mid-Exmoor, 

 in a lonely and rugged district, and enters Devon- 

 shire near Bampton. It receives the Iladdeo, 

 which Lord Carnarvon preserves, above Dulverton, 

 and the far larger Barle at Exbridge ; and between 

 this point and Tiverton the Brushford brook, 

 Bel brook, and Bampton brook flow in, while the 

 Loman joins at Tiverton. The next important 

 points, following the stream downwards, are Bick- 

 Icigh, Silverton, Thorverton, Brampford Speke and 

 Cowley Bridge. The Dart joins the Exe at Bick- 

 leigh and the Culm near Brampford Speke. The 

 Creedy joins below Cowley Bridge, and shortly 

 afterwards Exeter Bridge is reached. The Exe 

 has several angling associations. The Tiverton 

 Angling Association fishes the water for four miles 

 below the town ; the Upper Exe Fishery Associa- 

 tion preserves it between Bickleigh Bridge and 

 Thorverton, and the Lower Exe Association, 

 from Thorverton to Cowley Bridge. In addition 



