TO 



SIR THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, Bart, 

 killerton, devon. 



My dear Sir Thomas Acland, 



I avail myself of your kind permission to dedicate 

 to you the following pages, descriptive of an ancient and 

 noble sport with which the name of Acland is inseparably 

 connected, and of which you have ever been a kind and 

 liberal patron and supporter. 



I have the honour to be, 



Your faithful and obliged servant, 



CHARLES PALK COLLYNS. 



DuLVERTON, Somerset, 

 December 1861. 



