SIR WALTER PALK CAREW, BART. 53 



true of later times, but hunting has receded further 

 from the coast and these cHff foxes are not often found. 

 I once saw a run finish at the Parson and Clerk cliff, 

 and on occasion have known foxes make for the cliffs 

 between the Ness and Torquay. On one of those 

 occasions, in Mr. Whidborne's second mastership, a 

 hound fell over the cliffs and was killed. It is 

 remarkable, considering that he hunted the cliffs 

 frequently, that Sir Walter Carew mentions only two 

 similar accidents in his fourteen years' record. Both 

 occurred in December, 1831 ; the first at the rocks at 

 Sowden cliff, when the master lost his favourite bitch, 

 Gipsey, and the second at Watcombe, when a hound 

 called Alderman was killed after earthing his fox. 

 Sir Henry Scale, however, mentions two or three 

 instances in his letters of hounds falling over the 

 cliff, though in every case the hounds were not 

 seriously hurt. Once a man had to be let down by a 

 rope to recover one, which " the field seemed to 

 consider great fun." 



Instances are also to be found in the journal of the 

 pack frequently crossing the River Teign between 

 Ugbrooke and Stover, and sometimes much lower 

 down in the tidal reaches of the river. And yet I can 

 recall only two instances within the last thirty-five 

 years of the river being crossed between Teignbridge 

 and Bovey, and none at all of any crossing below 

 Teignbridge. And of those two instances, one, in 

 Dr. Gaye's time, I think, was, as I learnt years after- 

 wards from one of the keepers concerned, after a dead 

 fox. The other occurred while Dan North was 

 huntsman to the Haldon Hounds, and the pack 

 earthed a fox in Rora. 



Why this change should have come about it is hard 

 to say. The river was always there. The canal was 



