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SPORT IN EUROPE 



the rare beauty of the Roman Campagna, the sporting- nature of 

 the fences — posts and rails and stone walls — and all the fascina- 

 tion exercised by the proximity of the eternal city — these make 

 Rome most suitable as a continental centre of huntine. 



HE COUNT U. VISCONTI DI iMODRONE 

 (^Master of the Roman Staghounds) 



The Campagna, with its wondrous contrasts, allures and interests 

 one as perhaps no other spot on earth. With its ruins and aqueducts, 

 wonderful relics of the ancient Roman State, it also offers pasture 

 lands as tar as eye can roam, frequented only by wandering shepherds, 

 whose strange clothing recalls the primitive folk of the western states 



