XVI PREFACE. 



inhabit them, would manifestly be incomplete 

 without some account of the game, from a sporting 

 point of view, both by flood and field, for which 

 the wilderness has been so celebrated. These 

 sporting sketches form the greater portion of our 

 third volume. 



Lastly, in a work somewhat technical in many 

 of its details, we have been impressed with the 

 importance of a complete index, by means of which 

 any desired subject treated of in these pages, can 

 be readily referred to. This index, comprising 

 some two thousand items, is placed at the end 

 of Volume III. It has of course necessitated con- 

 siderable literary labour in its compilation. If 

 however, it serves the purpose for which it was 

 intended, we shall by no means deem the time 

 expended upon it as lost. 



HILTON PARK, December 1896. 



