HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Thence they ran the banks of the Niddry burn 

 but turnmg right-handed from Bell's mills went 

 on by Niddry Mains and East Mains, and across 

 the Edinburgh and Bathgate road to Drumshore- 

 land. It was now getting late and scent was 

 failing, but they worked steadily up to their fox 

 in that large covert, and once more compelled him 

 to break, running him by Broxburn village and 

 Kilpunt to the Almond, which they crossed a 

 little above Bird's mill before marking to ground 

 on the banks of the river at Cliftonhall, — " an 

 hour and forty minutes without anything like a 

 check." 1 



During these earlier seasons of Mr Ramsay's 

 mastership, the field, for that of a provincial 

 country, was often a large one, more especially on 

 occasions when the hounds met within easy reach 

 of Edinburgh. Amongst others, the following are 

 mentioned as having been out hunting : — the 

 Earl of Caithness, the Earl of Hopetoun, the Earl 

 of Morton, Lord John Scott, Captain the Hon. 

 James Sandilands, Sir Joseph Ratcliffe, Sir William 

 Scott of Ancrum, Mr Ains worth, Mr Burrell of 

 Broomhall, Northumberland, Captain Christie, Mr 

 Dundas of Arniston, Mr Earl, Mr Forbes of Cal- 

 lendar, Mr Gatacre, Mr W. Gibson-Craig of Ric- 

 carton, Mr, afterwards Sir, Francis Grant, Mr 

 Hare of Calderhall, Mr Hay of Duns Castle, Mr 

 R. Lindsay, Mr Maxwell, Mr Hay Mackenzie, 

 Captain Makepeace, Mr Mayou, Mr Place, Major 



^ ' Sporting Magazine,' February 1835. 



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