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FEEJTF COMBES. 
grand and lovely scenes, not easily surpassed. The 
blue sea shining in the summer sun, dotted with 
sails ; the snowy seabirds skimming through the 
clear air; the green woods gay with flowers, and 
the busy hum of countless insects, transport the 
traveller with delight. Prom Grlenthorne (near 
which place Asplenium septentrionale* grows) there 
is a track across the moor (where you may find 
Lycopodium alpmum ), leading down to Oare, an¬ 
other of the numberless valleys of this country. 
By following the windings of the stream some lit¬ 
tle way, and then turning to the left, Brendon and 
Watersmeet will be passed, and Lynmouth gained 
by the valley of the East Lynn. 
Oare Water and Badgery Water are well worthy 
a separate excursion, either to the angler, the bo¬ 
tanist, or the artist. Eor the first there are trout; 
for the second, plants; for the third, some choice 
bits of rocky stream scenery, set in purple moor¬ 
lands. Eor all three there is a chance of coming 
upon some antlered king of the forest and his 
velvet-coated dames, whose principal resort are the 
woods round Brendon Barton, an isolated grange, 
standing on the edge of the moor, in the direct 
road from Lynton to Simonsbath. Here, at early 
dawn or late in the evening, may often be seen a 
group of these aboriginal inhabitants. 
* Plate IH. Fig. 3. 
