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ing down from Dunkery and the combes to westward. 

 Dunkery is the boundary of the high land eastward, 

 the ground all round falling away from it ; though 

 there are a few smaller hills rising abruptly in the low 

 land as stepping stones across to the Ouantock Hills. 

 Between the north side of Dunkery and the sea is the 

 vale of Porlock, with Holnicote nestling comfortably 

 in the midst of it. The barrier between the vale and 

 the sea is North Hill, which runs from Bossington 

 Point to Minehead : Dunster, Watchet, and the Quan- 

 tocks lie eastward up the vale. 



The south side of Dunkery (called Godsend Moors) 

 is very wet rushy ground, which sends a tributary 

 southward to join the Exe below Winsford, and thus 

 forms the connecting link between Dunkery and Dul- 

 verton. The only remaining stronghold of the deer 

 to be mentioned is Haddon, a great heather hill a 

 couple of miles east of Dulverton, surrounded and 

 flanked by enormous woods which stretch down the 

 inevitable stream (Haddeo) almost to the woods of 

 the Exe. 



Thus we see that the deer covers lie all round the 

 skirts of this great tract of moorland and watershed : 

 the Bray Covers at the south-west corner, the Horner 

 Covers at the north-east, the Brendon Covers at the 



