NOTE ON THE MAP 



FOR reasons which appear earlier in these pages, 

 the red boundary of the South Devon country 

 includes what, under existing conditions, is the Mid- 

 Devon country. The division between the two hunts 

 is shewn by a broken red line. The boundaries of the 

 Mid-Devon were defined for me by Mr. Hayter-Hames 

 and Mr. Gilbert Spiller. It is only fair to say that 

 Mr. A. W. Luxton, the master, and Mr. J. A. Tatters- 

 hall, the honorary secretary of the Eggesford, after 

 consultation with members of their committee, do 

 not agree the exact line given as the northern 

 boundary of the Mid-Devon. They place it some- 

 what further to the south from the neighbourhood 

 of Belstone to Spreyton and a mile or two beyond. 

 I have, however, adopted the line which Mr. Hayter- 

 Hames and Mr. Spiller were good enough to lay 

 down with great nicety, for the reason that both 

 those gentlemen have been intimately acquainted 

 with the hunt and the country all their lives, and 

 have been masters of the Mid-Devon, at one time or 

 another, for an aggregate period of eleven seasons. 



The line of division shewn between the Eggesford 

 and the South Devon proper in the neighbourhood 

 of Crediton is that which I understand the Eggesford 

 claims as its south-eastern boundary. 



The extreme north-eastern corner of the South 

 Devon calls for explanation. For reasons stated 

 presently, I have adopted as the boundary that given 



