THE CHACE. 
length, he had often two packs out on the same day a 
circumstance before unheard of. This gentleman, how- 
ever, is insatiable in his passion for the chace ; and when 
we think what fatigue he must have been inured to whilst 
hunting his own hounds six days a week, in such a 
county as Leicestershire, for a succession of seasons, we 
read with less surprise his late Herculean feat of riding 
fifty four-mile heats over Newmarket heath, in the short 
space of eight hours, and in the face of most tempestuous 
weather ! 
Four packs of fox-hounds divide this far-famed county 
of Leicester : namely, Mr. Forester's, late the Duke of 
Rutland's ; the Earl of Lonsdale's ; the Atherstone, late 
the Earl of Lichfield's, afterwards Sir John Gerard's, 
but now Mr. Applewaite's ; and what were so long called 
the Q,uorn, now Mr. Errington's, but lately Sir Harry 
Goodricke's, who built a kennel for them at Thrussington, 
half way between Melton and Leicester, which situation 
is more in the centre of the country than Quorn, where 
they had previously been kept for the period of Mr. 
Meynell's hunting. The county of Leicester, however, 
does not of itself find room for all these packs : parts of 
Rutlandshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and War- 
wickshire, are also included in their beat. 
Our readers are doubtless aware that such portion of 
a country as is hunted by any one pack of hounds is 
technically called their country ; and of all the countries 
in the world, the Quorn certainly bears the bell. This 
superiority arises from the peculiar nature of the soil, 
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