APPENDIX I. 



Muiravonside, blank day. Very cold and wet. 

 Ploughboy, G.finder, Mr B. — B. mare, Lord E. — Star. 

 1808 

 Jan. 2. Find at Torphichen bridge — a brace — instantly get 

 hounds together, run south of Wallhouse, turn 

 north to Bowden, much running in the cover, run 

 a fox towards Muiravonside, cross the water, bothered 

 with Livingstone's harriers, return to Bowden, find 

 again, run towards Genl. Terrier's, through Dr Seton's, 

 near the new manse south of Lithgow, turn over the 

 hill west of Eiccartou, down through the cover, over 

 Binnie craig, kill south of Binnie House. Murray 

 and myself only up with the hounds, having gone 

 round south side of Cockle Eoy ; famous run. 

 Whalebone, Murray his old horse. Cavendish at a 

 standstill, old Paddy, grey horse. 



8. Bonny Bridge. Try from thence to Falkirk muir, find 



there, run into a drain at Mr Wisharts, not out, 

 sore leg. 



9. Meet at kennel, try all the covers south of Callender 



wood, don't find, not out. 



IL Hunters Folly. Find, run through the water near 

 Dunnipace, north, then west, near to Mount-riddle, 

 to Tor wood. Kill near Dunnipace, not out. 



14. Kinneil wood. Find in a small patch near Lithgow 

 close by the roadside, run past the printfield to 

 ground in a rabbit -hole by the roadside near the 

 gravel pits Falkirk road — Plough Boy, Goldfinder, 

 Mr B.— grey, Elph. Star. 



19. Torphichen bridge. Find outside of the covert, run west 

 and back again to Torphichen town by Wallhouse, 

 thro' the cover again to Bowden, — three foxes at least 

 on foot — one goes away from east end of Bowden 

 over Cockle Eoy, south towards Bathgate, hounds 

 split, Elphinstone and I follow some hounds east as 

 far as Uphall, he goes home, and I come to K. Cd. 

 P. Boy, Goldfinder, Mr B. — grey, Lord E. — chestnut 

 Star. 

 Feb. 1. Dunmore Park. Find, run towards Torwood, bad 

 scenting, not out. 

 5. Hunters Folly. Don't find, wet wild day. Whalebone, 

 Gold F., Mr B. grey horse. 



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