THE DOMAIN OF THE RED DEER. ii 



the property of Lord Carnarvon. The Exe, now 

 divided only by the park from the Barle, gradually 

 approaches this last river till it joins it a mile 

 below Dulverton. The Barle is the largest of the two 

 at the junction, but the Exe keeps its name on past 

 Stoodley and Tiverton and Colipriest (where the 

 Carews live), and at last to the sea at Exmouth. 



This adds a third great fold to the two already men- 

 tioned. The land between Barle and Exe has much of 

 it been reclaimed, with the exception of one grand 

 hill, Winsford Hill by name, covered with tall heather, 

 which separates the two rivers for some four miles 

 from Withypool downwards. 



Both Barle and Exe drain little but the land to the 

 northward of their course for some way, the chief 

 tributaries of the former being Kensford (? King's 

 Ford) Water, which seams the main southern barrier 

 for some five miles, between Five Barrows and the 

 Barle; the West water, which rises on Withypool 

 Common, and the Danesbrook, which has its source 

 some mile and a half from the West water; all of 

 them running in from the southward. 



North of the Exe there is a great spread of table- 

 land to the sea ; table-land, that is, in a modified sense, 

 for it is all deeply seamed by combes taking the water 



