THE LOUDOUN COUNTY 



ranges, lies a valley twenty miles long and ten miles wide. The little towns 

 of Waterford, Wheatland, Hamilton and Hillsboro afford popular meets from 

 which to hunt this territory. Catoctin Creek, at one place, makes a very 

 circuitous bend known as "The Horse-shoe," which affords good cover 

 along its banks, in which many foxes breed. Let hounds force a fox out of it 

 into the open, and he must run fast and far over the most beautiful riding 

 country before he can find sanctuary. Little or no hunting was done in this 

 section of the country until 1 908, and the landowners are keen to have hounds 

 there as often as they will come, though for that matter most of the landowners 

 in Virginia are reasonable enough if they are treated with consideration. 



Such is the " Leicestershire of America," a distinction which is shared by 

 the Piedmont and Orange County countries which adjoin it 



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