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lessly and absurdly inaccurate. The hill ranges are 

 incorrectly laid down ; whole valleys with their 

 accompanying heights are omitted with charming 

 effrontery ; rivers are traced to wrong sources, and 

 important tributaries left entirely to imagination. In 

 such a case it seemed simplest to sweep away all 

 the hill markings and trace the rivers as fully as 

 possible, leaving the reader to remember that every 

 stream means a deep fold in a steep hilly country, 

 and cautioning him that such folds deepen from the 

 source of the stream downwards. 



Finally, the writer has to express his thanks to 

 Mr. James Turner for much interesting information 

 unearthed by him as to the early history of Exmoor, 

 and for other valuable assistance. 



October, 1886. 



