i2 STAG- HUNTING ON EXAfOOR. 



from a good tract of wet ground to the Lyn. This 

 Lyn rises within a stone's throw of the Exe, and flows 

 almost due northward, forming roughly the western 

 boundary of the moor, to the sea at Lynmouth. But 

 though so far to westward, it drains the whole country 

 north of the Exe, save one corner at the eastern 

 extremity of the moor, which is pretty well bounded 

 by the road running from the Exe at the Warren, about 

 five miles above Exford, to Hawkcombe Head, on the 

 cliffs above Porlock. Between this road and the Lyn 

 (from twelve to fifteen miles) runs the county boun- 

 dary ; the ground to the north-west, or Devon-ward, 

 which is heathery, being named Brendon Common, 

 that south-east and Somerset-ward, which is yellow 

 grass, the North Forest. Both are slashed by steep 

 combes pouring the water into one main stream, which 

 runs from east to west (the opposite direction to Exe 

 and Barle), and is called first Badgworthy Water and 

 lower down the East Lyn. Badgworthy Wood is a 

 small cover overhanging the water high up, and Oare 

 is about a mile and a half below and to east of the 

 wood. The East Lyn flows on past Brendon village 

 through four miles of deep cover to join the West Lyn 

 at Watersmeet, a little above Lynmouth. These woods 

 are known as the Brendon Covers. 



