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may have gone or the tide may have carried 

 him. 



A new deer-fence that has been erected 

 by the Earl of Lovelace for the protection of 

 his farms at Culbone has turned away towards 

 the moor many a deer that would otherwise 

 have gone to sea near Ashley Combe, but the 

 Weir boat still has many a call down the 

 coast to Glenthorne or upwards across the 

 dancing waters of Porlock Bay towards Hurl- 

 stone Point. 



This cruel headland with its serrated ledges 

 of surf beaten rock, drops sheer into the 

 tumbling water from the grassy slopes of 

 North Hill, and at its most weather beaten 

 extremity deer from time to time dash into 

 the sea. 



A certain one horned stag that ran to 

 this point from Haddon in the October of 

 1888, after covering the distance in one hour 

 and fifty minutes from the time of his rousing 

 in the fields above the Lady's Drive at Steart, 

 broke from his bay here, and striking boldly 

 out to sea, swam round the headland and 

 was carried by the tide and his own efforts 

 for some miles towards Minehead, landing at 

 last near Greenaleigh and being safely taken. 

 This stag was subsequently sent to Lord 

 Rothschild and shewed several good runs 

 before his pack. 



