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The hunts took place principally at Cooper's Creek^ 

 about four miles from the city, at the horseheads seven 

 miles, at Chew's landing, nine miles, at Blackwood-town, 

 twelve miles, at Heston's Glass-works, twenty miles dis- 

 tant, and sometimes at Thompson's Point, on Delaware, 

 many miles to the South. 



The chase usually lasted from one to five or six hours, 

 and sometimes hot pursuit has been made for eight or ten 

 hours after an old straight forward fleet running Red 

 Jacket, consequently coursing over a vast extent of coun- 

 try. It is needless to note how many in such emergen- 

 cies would give up the chase, or be lost sight of, a d 

 completely thrown out. In 1798, one of them carried 

 the pack in full cry to Salem, forty miles distant. In 

 olden times, good hunts were made to view, on the 

 Sea Beach at Egg Harbour. 



This change of position, had the advantage of novelty, 

 and afforded fine shooting in variety and abundance. The 

 increase of the mischievous crew of the Reynard family in 

 Gloucester, afforded plenty of sport. The stock suffering 

 farmer hailed the hounds and the huntsman as friends, free 

 to enter his enclosures and traverse his fields, and his woods, 

 unmolested and unrestrained from the tenth of October, 

 until the tenth of April, at which period the fences were 

 repaired and the ground tilled. Often have we seen him on 

 hearing the music of the dogs, hastily bridle his horse 

 and mount him, frequently without a saddle, and gallop 

 after and joyfully augment the merry hunting train. It 



