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too cordial embrace. These and numerous other 

 foreign spoils are preserved to adorn the joint 

 collection. 



The Author has only further to say that all 

 his sporting feats are transcripts from his private 

 journal, taken down the same night, or at furthest 

 next morning after they occurred. He has never, 

 therefore, been forced to draw on memory or 

 imagination ! 



KAMES CASTLE, Jvly 1866. 



