HUNTING SPORTS OF THE WEST. 



GRAND CIRCULAR HUNT. 



THE spirit of the Hunters of Kentucky, says the Hes- 

 perian, is not not yet extinct. 



Rapid as has been the advance of population in the 

 West, and the progress of what is called refined life, 

 during the last quarter of a century evident as is the 

 aversion or indifference to manly sports, among the great 

 body of the descendants and successors of the Pioneers 

 much as silks and broadcloths have superseded " fac- 

 tory" and "home-made," and delicate canes and cush- 

 ioned curricles have taken the place of rifles and the 

 good old horseback exercises ; yet one's eyes are now 

 and then gladdened with the sight of a real hunting-shirt 

 upon the back of a true Anakim of the ancient stock, 

 and one's ears occasionally delighted with accounts of 

 attempts to revive and keep up the manly old sports of 

 our fathers. 



The following is an account of a regular old fashioned 

 Circular Hunt, which took place in Kentucky, several 

 years since. The readers of Dr. Livingstone's travels, 

 will recognize in it a resemblance to certain hunting 

 sports which he mentions : 



We rose in the morning at an early hour, to make 



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