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and the encroachments of some of their neigh- 

 bours whose hounds can scarcely be said to be 

 jDroperly estabhshed packs, have undoubtedly 

 something to do with the paucity of foxes for 

 which the country has achieved an unenviable 

 notoriety. 



Some years ago Mr. Chapman kept a pack of 

 harriers, and whenever he could find a fox, which 

 was only seldom, he always had a run with him. 

 The harriers were given up some time before his 

 death, and the country was not regularly hunted 

 for a few years. About 1867 or 1868, Mr. 

 Herbert Eastall got some hounds from Lealholm, 

 and commenced to hunt the country with a very 

 limited subscription. The country itself was 

 only of a small area, barely sufficient for two days 

 a week if plentifully supplied with foxes ; but 

 neighbouring hunts gave them a helping hand, 

 and the Cleveland loaned them Mulgrave and the 

 adjacent district, as well as permitting them to 

 draw Koxby Wood occasionally during the 

 season ; whilst Captain Johnstone sometimes 

 o^ave them invitations to Clous^hton and other 

 places. 



The country proper may be said to extend from 

 Fryup Head to Sandsend in one direction, and 

 from Redgate to Fylingdales in the other. The 

 best country is about Sleights, and there is a 

 capital line between Little Beck and Whitby 

 Cliff. A large proportion of it is grass, and 



