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commencement to the conclusion of the Letters : but this was found 

 to be impracticable, as the intervening connexion would necessarily 

 be omitted ; and this is so interwoven with the progress of the 

 narrative, that its interest would in that case be materially diminished. 

 The "Tours," therefore, are now given as they originally followed 

 each other, without the addition of a single line, but with the omission 

 of all extraneous matter not connected with Fox-huntiiuj. 



Many of the Hunting Men of that day have also been elevated 

 in the scale of society ; but it has been deemed advisable to retain 

 the name of the individual as he was then designated : so that it is 

 only necessary to say, that the Earl of Darlington at the time 

 NiMROD wrote is the Duke of Cleveland of the present day ; the 

 Lord Anson, Earl of Lichfield ; the Colonel Berkeley, Lord 

 Seagrave, &c., &c. 



Nimrod's Letters on " Eiding to Hounds," with an Analytical 

 Contents and List ''•■ of all the Sporting Characters introduced, 

 are added, thus rendering the volume the most interesting hitherto 

 published on the subject of the Chase. 



* This has buun eulax'ged autl made completo in the present edition. 



