46 THE AMERICAN FOXHOUND 



I have understood, Mr. Editor, for I have never had the pleasure 

 to follow them, in more unmixed purity in Mr. Ogle's pack, at 

 Belle Air, than anywhere in Maryland. His stallion hound for 

 some years was old Mountain, and from his loins it is supposed 

 his pack has sprung. He was a very compact dog of middling 

 size, and what in cattle, in England, is called flecked, not 

 spotted, with large, dull, blue-grayish splotches. Such, at least, 

 was his appearance when I saw him at Homewood, the residence 

 of C. Carroll, Jr., to whom he had been presented by Mr. Ogle. 

 But the handsomest, and, from what I saw of his performance in 

 one hunt, when a large red was run into in fifteen minutes, the 

 most perfect and powerful hound I ever beheld on a drag, or 

 when running to kill, was one which you told me had been sent 

 to you at the instance of the hospitable General Chamberlayne, 

 of New Kent, in Virginia.* Venator." 



No. 7. — Venator lias but done justice to old Mountain and his 

 descendants. Mr. Ogle presented me one couple which exactly 

 answer your description, and are first rate dogs. A Northern 

 Necker." 



No. 8.— Selections by editor's staff from fox-hunting corre- 

 spondence: "In Essex county, Virginia, they have had some fine 

 sport since the weather moderated. There they have some of 

 Mr. Ogle's stock of Irish dogs, but they claim that they are 

 unmusical. They do not give tongue freely, and their notes are 

 chopping and shrill. By the bye, we have a portrait of Mr. 

 Ogle's famous bitch, Sophy — the leader of the pack— to be en- 

 graved on the same plate, or lithographed on stone, with the 

 portraiture, which we will have taken of any hound equally 

 distinguished that any gentleman will give us." 



No. 10.— Showing that Mr. Robbin Pollard's celebrated dogs 

 were of Irish blood. ". . . .Unluckily, however, after pursuing 

 the drag from the slashes, where it was first struck, up into the 

 piney lands upon the. hills adjacent, some confusion occurred 

 among the hounds ; and the fox was unkenneled at some distance 

 from the main pack by two young dogs whose notes were un- 

 Ifnown to me, and off they went down into the slashes, and be- 

 fore I could, with all my exertions, break off from the drag the 

 balance of the pack, these two dogs had run nearly out of 

 hearing. We pursued with all possible speed, and after a run of 

 about two miles came up with them at the main road and at 

 *This hound was a pup of Mountain. 



