perhaps that eighty-two years afterwards a less worthy 

 recorder of the doings of the Calcutta Hunt would 

 gratefully garner his notes into a somewhat halting record 

 of hunting in Calcutta. It is not difficult to follow the 

 exact line that this stout *' Jack" took, and thanks to the 

 €xcellent map of the country, for which we are beholden to 

 Dr. W. C. Hossack, it is possible to almost " ride " the run 

 over again yard for yard. The Prince's House is, of course, 

 the big house with the two clock towers just before the 

 Tollygunge Bazar is entered, this side of the Tollygunge 

 Club. The country they traversed was not very different 

 possibly to that over which we frequently ride a chase at 

 Christmas time, excepting that our " paper foxes " are, as 

 a rule, marked to ground at the refreshment Kiosk in the 

 Tollygunge Steeplechase Course enclosure ! There were 

 of course many other hunts flourishing in India at the 

 time of the above record (1826), but the Editor thinks that 

 it may be safely claimed that the Calcutta Hunt was the 

 oldest of them all, and that it was "galloping" when many 

 other establishments were, so to speak, in leading strings. 

 There are, many other records of their doings in 

 those old sporting magazines, but considerations of space 

 must have a say in the matter, and with such a mass of 

 material to be crammed in between the two covers of this 

 volume, the Editor is reluctantly compelled to content 

 himself with reproducing the above, one of the earliest, if 

 not the earliest, record of the doings of this famous hunt. 

 They apparently commenced operations about December, 

 as we do now, and the country over which they hunted was 

 a very widely extended one, taking in, as it did, all that 

 part of the world over which we paperchase to-day, as well 

 as Barrackpore (they frequently met at Coxe's Bungalow on 

 the Barrackpore Road), Dum Dum, Budge Budge and 

 even farther afield up in the direction of Gourepore. 

 There is a record of a run on the 4th February 1834 when 



