AND STIELINGSHIRE HUNT 



counties, namely, Linlithgow or West Lothian and 

 Stirling — which may be considered originally to 

 have formed the country proper, — Berwick, Dum- 

 barton, Dumfries, Edinburgh or Mid-Lothian, Fife, 

 Forfar, Haddington or East Lothian, Lanark, 

 Peebles, and Perth. In addition to the shires of 

 Linlithgow and Stirling, part of Mid-Lothian was 

 hunted in the year 1790, as were portions of the 

 counties of Dumbarton and Lanark in 1807 and 

 some subsequent years. From 1825 to 1828 the 

 west of Fife country and a part of Dumfriesshire 

 were visited from time to time, and in 1828 and 

 the immediately following seasons the Duns country 

 in Berwickshire was hunted alternately with the 

 counties of Linlithgow and Stirling. When the 

 Duns country was given up in 1833, part of Lanark- 

 shire was lent by Lord Kelburne, and the district 

 around Dunblane in Perthshire received some at- 

 tention. Then Forfarshire had its turn from 1838 

 to 1842, and in the year after that last-mentioned, 

 East Lothian was taken over with the approval of 

 the Duke of Buccleuch, and hunted in conjunction 

 with the counties of Linlithgow and Stirling, part 

 of Mid-Lothian, and certain parts of Lanarkshire and 

 Peeblesshire known as the Carnwath country. In 

 1848, East Lothian was relinquished, and in its 

 place the west of Fife district was again resorted 

 to, Fife at that time possessing no foxhounds of its 

 own. From 1855 to 1866 the Carnwath country 

 seems to have been preferred to Stirlingshire, which 

 then received only a small share of the fixtures, but 



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