RECORDS OF 



STAG -HUNTING ON EXMOOR. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE DOMAIN OF THE RED DEER. 



The traveller making his journey along the North 

 Devon Railway in search of the lovely scenery of the 

 North Devon coast, can hardly fail to notice that 

 shortly before reaching Eggesford, about midway 

 between Exeter and Barnstaple, the line begins to run 

 along a deep wooded valley, with a river flowing 

 westward down it. There Is much crossing and re- 

 crossing of this river between Eggesford and Barn- 

 staple, the stream almost doubling itself suddenly 

 some fourteen or fifteen miles short of the latter town, 

 through the influx of another river, which comes 

 pouring in from a wooded valley on the north side. 

 The combined rivers then flow on in one stately 

 stream, broader and broader as it nears the sea, past 

 the pretty town of Barnstaple, beneath a long bridge 

 of many small arches, to the "golden sands and the 



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