302 THE SOUTH DEVON HUNT 



by Sheet No. 19 of Stanford's Map of England and 

 Wales coloured to shew the Fox-Hunts^ published on 

 the 1st of January, 1877, as far as the point where 

 the Tiverton now come in. Stanford's map carries 

 the South Devon even further to the north. Sir Ian 

 Amory, however, has kindly marked what he claims 

 to be the present Tiverton boundary, and there can 

 be no question as to the accuracy of his claim. 



I am aware that Hobson^s Foxhunting Atlas, which 

 is before me, does not extend the north-eastern 

 corner of the South Devon as far as does Stanford's 

 map. Hobson carries it no further than the London 

 and South-Western Railway, which he calls the " Taw 

 Valley Railway." It will be noted that this gives the 

 Tiverton considerably more country than is claimed 

 by its present master. It is possible — though this is 

 only conjecture — that Mr. Tom Carew came down 

 with the Tiverton as far as the railway by permission 

 at the time his cousin, Sir Walter Carew, hunted the 

 South Devon country from Haccombe. It looks, 

 indeed, as if the colouring of Hobson's map of Devon- 

 shire hunts had been made to fit such areas as were 

 actually hunted by a particular pack at that moment, 

 ignoring loans of country and hunting rights which 

 were not then exercised. The northern half of 

 Dartmoor, for instance, is not coloured at all ; 

 neither is a large tract that encircles it on the west, 

 north and east ; and Sir Henry Scale's country, 

 which is known to have been made up of loans from 

 the South Devon and Dartmoor, is shewn as a 

 separate country. ^ Hobson^ s Atlas is not dated, but 



^ So is Mr. Roe's. This appears to have been included by mistake. Both 

 the Netv Sporting Magazine and Oilerfs Ouide class it among harrier packs, 

 and the latter work contains this remark : — 



" Mr. Roe's harriers are not foxhounds as would appear by advertisements 

 in the London papers ; they are well-bred harriers, and, oj course, confine 

 themselves to their own game." 



