DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL STREAMS i6i 



Pool, near the source of the Dart on Dartmoor, a 

 few miles from Lid ford. It receives, before it joins 

 the Tamar, the Rattle Brook, the Woolmer, The 

 the Wallcombe, the Bagga Tor Brook, Tavy 

 the Willsworthy Brook, and the Petertavy Brook. 

 The Tavy passes Tavistock and Walreddon, where 

 the steep hills and masses of wood above the 

 stream form some fine scenery. This river is 

 clearer than the Tamar, and it flows rapidly, so 

 that the poet Browne wrote of " Tavie's voyceful 

 stream." At Tavy Cleave, Mary-Tavy and Peter- 

 Tavy the stream flows through a rugged and deso- 

 late country, and at the former place it is full of 

 sound and fury in floodtime as it roars beneath its 

 masses of overhanging crag. Tickets to fish the 

 Tavy are issued by the Tavy and Plym Associa- 

 tion, a shilling for the day or a sovereign for the 

 season. The trout run about the same size as 

 those of the Tamar, and they are supposed to be 

 less bright in colour ; they rarely come down into 

 the brackish water. The flies recommended for 

 the Tamar may be used for the Tavy. 



The Torridge, a river of some 60 miles from source 

 to sea, rises near the sea at Barnstaple Bay, and not 

 far from the source of the Tamar. Owing to jhe 

 the peaty moors through which it travels in Torridge 

 its upper portions, the stream is of a brownish 

 colour. The Torridge comes from near Hartland, 

 and soon receives some tributary streams, amongst 

 them being the Waldon. The course of the river 

 is somewhat eccentric. Between its source and 

 Black Torrington, it flows south-cast ; then for 

 some miles to the point where the Lew joins, it 

 flows due east ; and, finally, turning sharply round, 

 makes for Barnstaple and Bideford Bay, flowing 



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