324 The Hunting Countries of England. 



Hounds are seldom advertised west of Parracombe ; 

 and tlie enclosed country scarcely represents tlie 

 domain of tlie pack that is so closely associated with 

 Exmoor's wild wastes. 



The chief landowners — and all of them firm believers 

 in the western creed that hunting in any shape is a 

 sacred thing — are Lords Lovelace and Fortescue, 

 Sir Thomas Acland, Mr. Knight, Mrs. Lock-Roe, 

 Cols. Blathwayt and Wynch, Mr. Clarke, &c. 



Some of the leading meets and draws are as 

 follows : From Parracombe we get those coverts and 

 Kentisbury; Challacombe Town is for Challacombe 

 covert, Bratton Down, and Leworthy ; from High 

 Bray, both that and Charles Parish — the best district 

 in the hunt — are drawn. Cutcombe and Dunkery 

 form the eastern boundary of Mr. Snow's country. 



In conclusion, it need only be said that the most 

 favoured meets on and adjoining the Moor are 

 Malmesmead Bridge, Simonsbath, Alderman' s-Barrow, 

 Woodbarrow, and Hawkcombe Head — and that horse 

 and hound for the country should be thick, well-bred, 

 and short on the leg. 



