HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



in consequence of the pace, the boggy ground, and 

 the distance traversed. From Glints the line lay 

 by Middle Town and Nether Town to Troquhan on 

 Gala Water, where hounds pulled down their fox 

 after a chase of two hours and twenty minutes. 

 The distance from point to point is stated at 

 thirteen miles, and as hounds ran, at not less than 

 seventeen, while out of a field of fifty, only about 

 ten, including Atkinson and one of the whippers- 

 in, were present at the finish.^ This run was the 

 precursor of many others almost equally good, 

 among which may be mentioned one from a fixture 

 at Ecclesmachan village on the 17th of February 

 (1870). The coverts lying to the south of Nancy's 

 hill held a fox which hounds pursued, with only 

 one slight check, over much of the best of the 

 Linlithgow and Stirlingshire country, running by 

 the Braes o' Mar, Little Ochiltree, Hangingside, 

 Ochiltree mill, Longmuir, the Riccarton hills, 

 Wairdlaw, B'ormie, Cockleroi, and Lochcote, to 

 Wallhouse Desert, thence across the Avon into 

 Stirlingshire, and by Muiravonside to Manuel 

 House, where they marked to ground in a drain 

 under the avenue. The time is stated to have 

 been one hour and thirty -five minutes, during 

 which the pack was only once handled, while the 

 distance traversed must have been fully fourteen 

 miles. ^ 



The Marquis of Queensberry, who, with Joe 



^ ' Edinburgh Evening Courant,' 23rd November 1869. 

 2 Ibid., 24th February 1870. 



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