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WISTMAN'S WOOD. 
HIS singular Oak wood of Dartmoor is the 
des i 
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No other pack in the world 
has ever hunted over such an extensive country 
as Wistman's famous ish hounds. Their 
pace, too, was tremendous, and it was a pecu- 
liarity of this pack that eo always met at 
night. They could run or drift through the 
air, or among the кейе d trees, and Wis t- 
a 
the wood one feels that the * lord of waste and 
mountain" must have been at home in such a 
spot. Itisabout7 miles above Dart Meet, on 
the steep slope of West Dart, near Eds rise, and 
near the highest tors of Dart oor. Trees 
generally, on this part of the Шой, are only 
found in the deeper valleys, and they usually 
bend before the blast, and away from the most 
exposed aspect. The wood hangs on the 
eastern side of the narrow valley, which is open 
at the south, and blocked and completely 
sheltered at the north end, immediately above 
Wistman's Wood, by high ground rising at 
several points in ragged t ors 
t of the lions of Dartmoor are encom- 
visit. round about by rocks which may be 
scrambled over by a tourist with two good legs, 
some inn orcottage, or tied to a block of granite; 
for if he be left on the moor, you may expect to 
find him again at his manger, many miles off 
perhaps. 
According to the Guide Books, every tor on 
doubt, but ре you have gym ? At 
the edge of Wistman's W a gentle- 
m who seemed extremely lively, and who 
in measuring the Oaks. He had 
left "e inn at Two Bridges with a baby, a 
mile—at the beginning of the 
ance gend distance from Two Bridges alto- 
gether being 14 mile. In stretching the cord 
round a noble little tree, one of the largest, with 
upon-the gentleman's fac u think 
you heard the Wish аи ?" І asked. E No," 
said he, “but the fact of the matter is, my 
morning !" 
e Oak awhile, There 
besides it is a novelty to'sit down at the part- 
€ branches of an aged Oak without 
A main limb, mu ch riven 
you may prefer. 
a block of granite nicely felted with soft moss. 
The height of this tree was I5 feet, and the 
trunk being нотою дс gaping, it now measures 
6 feet in girth. It may have been a tree of 
solid timber, and in its prime at the period of 
the Norman Conquest; it is now a weird and 
ено twisted specimen, as tough as many 
а 
The slope of tliis hill is so great that the foot- 
stool beneath this old 
as you look up from the outer and upper edge 
of the wood, similar blocks are thickly scattered 
tothe top of the hill. Without these friendly 
x ? 
From a period antecedent to that when English 
history began, they have defended it, and they 
will probably continue to d 
trees stand near enough together that at a short ; 
can be 
distance only a sheet of green can 
seen, 
cov e" up Бебето all the aged, sere, and | 
and ra 
time-w imbs stems OW. 
y grow 
out of ^e interstices of slabs and rócks of 
granite, which are piled together at every pos- 
sible angle, or lie up edgewise, or down flat, and 
which cover all the ground, It is a piece of 
Dartmoor Petræa which the animals turned out 
its four legs together in standing upon the point 
of a stone, so as practically to get тїй” of three- 
коб of the difficulty of walking in stony 
plac But even a goat in Wistman's Wood 
chi ‘do better drifting through it like the Wish 
hounds, Speaking from experi am satis- 
fied that after only 40 or 50 yards of sipping 
pati 
would be only too glad to exchange their legs 
for a pair of wings. The green covering I have 
referred to consists of the flat heads of trees, 
which frequently spread 10 or 12 feet in either 
direction, the trunks being unseen among the 
piled slabs, and the branches often ve upon 
the stones. This is very snug. fo: in 
such а stormy aspect, and upon a site p cold 
the evening of August 
distance were surprised to find it so welcome, 
The lower side of the wood, which faces- the 
opposite and bare slope of the narrow valley, is 
off ; the rest of this flat-headed little forest is 
tilted towards the appen slope by the dip of 
v ground, like the rson who binds 
head, and no жй or injury of the 
туй takes place, each tree protecting its 
neig mum 
Many of the branches actually rest K 
all c cot eps spread c 1 a tiv y eose 
the ground, and much below the height at whicl 
y animals browsing upon them. 
IT is one _tree—and ie are scores 
be 
3 feet high, but it is too much blocked р v 
an exact measurement to be effected. The 
zontal branches rest upon the upper kata of 
the slabs, which ie them when old, and 
chafe the tough bark if they happen to be young 
