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Counties intersects the Quorn country nearly midway, 

 passing from Leicester to Melton, with a branch from 

 Syston Junction to Loughborough and Derby. The 

 Leicester and Swannington branch affords communi- 

 cation with the south-western portion of the hunt, and 

 the Donnington country is equally provided for. As 

 evidence of the accommodation which railways afford, 

 on the 16th of January 1852 Sir Richard Sutton, accom- 

 panied by Lord Cardigan, came to meet the hounds at 

 Wymeswold from the baronet's seat in Norfolk, where 

 they had been on a shooting excursion the previous 

 day, and after enjoying a night's rest hi the land of 

 turnips, barley, and birds, were not fifteen minutes 

 behind time in the land of grass, ox-fences, and foxes. 



The Quorn country, according to the arrangements 

 made for its division from the Donnington, extends 

 from Widmerpool to Gumley ; Bunny, which is beyond 

 Widmerpool in a northerly direction, being neutral. 

 Great Dalby is on the eastern point, where it is bordered 

 by the Cottesmore, and on the north-eastern by the 

 Duke of Rutland's. The Pytchley claim the country 

 on the south-east, and the Atherstone on the south- 

 west and west. The Donnington country intervenes 

 between the Quorn and Mr. Meynell Ingram's Hunt. 



