CHAPTER IV. 
THE FERNY MOORLANDS. 
HE grandeur of the Devonshire 
moorland scenery almost defies 
description. The Fern hunter, 
searching for his favourites 
amongst the ferny haunts of the 
4 Fern paradise,’ will derive the 
keenest enjoyment from a ramble on the 
moors. Away from the town on the 
mountain side, with the free blue sky 
overhead, surrounded by wooded steeps 
which descend swiftly to the valleys below ! Or 
away in those valleys where the boulder-strewn 
beds of the rushing moorland streams send forth 
their wild music to the delighted ear : wandering 
from hill-side to valley, and from valley to hill- 
