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peated. If those whose land is thus tres- 

 passed upon are contented, or if recompense 

 be made to such as are not, we have nothing 

 further to say on that score ; but we should 

 be sorry that the too frequent repetition of 

 such practices should put the farmers out 

 of temper, and thus prove hurtful to fox- 

 hunting. We may also take the liberty to 

 remark, that one human life and several 

 good horses have already been the penalty 

 of this rather unreasonable pastime ; and 

 that, from the pace the horses must travel 

 at, considerable danger to life and limb is 

 always close at hand. 1 What are called 

 hurdle-races are still more absurd, by blend- 

 ing the qualifications of the race-horse with 

 the hunter, at a time of the year very unfit 

 for the experiment. 



In Scotland, racing is progressing steadily, 

 and in very good hands in those chiefly of 

 Lords Kelburne, now Lord Wemyss, Elcho, 

 and Eglinton, Sir James Boswell, General 

 Sharpe, and Mr. Ramsay. The crack man 



1 We recommend the uninitiated, who wish to have 

 some notion of a steeple-chace, to study an admirable 

 set of prints on that subject lately published, after 

 drawings by the Hogarth of the chace, Mr. Alken. & 



