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The length of the chase is uncertain ; but, as they were 

 seen at Red-kirk, near Annan, in Dumfriesshire, (distant 

 by the post-road forty-six miles,) it is conjectured that the 

 circuitous and uneven course they might be supposed to take 

 would not be less than one hundred and twenty miles. To 

 commemorate this fact, the liorns of the stag, which were 

 the largest ever seen in that part of the country, were 

 placed on a tree of enormous size in the Park, (afterwards 

 called "Hart's-horn Tree,'') accompanied with this inscrip- 

 tion : — 



*' Hercules kilFd Hart o' Greece ; 

 And Hart o* Greece kill'd Hercules ! " 



The horns have been since removed, and are now at Julian's 

 Bower, in the same county. 



THE FOXHOUND. 



The muzzle of the foxhound is rather long, and his head 

 small in proportion to his body ; his ears long and pendu- 

 lous, though not so much so as those of the bloodhound or 

 staghound, and a little lower at the shoulders, and more 

 slender in his make. His limbs are very straight, his feet 

 round, and not too large ; his chest is very deep, and breast 

 wide ; his back broad, his neck thin, with the shoulders 

 lying well back, and his tail thick and bushy, which he 

 carries high while in the chase. The ground-colour of his 

 whole skin is white, variously patched with black and tan in 

 different parts of the body, as well as the head, and gene- 

 rally with one at the root of his tail. 



No country in Europe can boast of foxhounds equal in 

 swiftness, strength, and agility to those of Britain, where the 

 utmost attention is paid to their breeding, education, and 

 food. The climate also seems congenial to their nature ; 

 for when taken to France or Spain, and other southern 



