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bania affords the best sport ; in the hard winters 

 the Morea. 



" Chiazenza, in the Morea, is the usual landing 

 place from Zante, and twelve miles distant from 

 it. Castel Tornese is the fortress above it. The 

 ground here is moderately undulating, of a dry 

 sandy soil; the covers formed by arbutus and 

 bay-trees. In previous years this had been very 

 good woodcock ground, but owing to the pre- 

 valence of fine weather this year, 1845, and 

 absence of snow from the hills, the cocks had 

 not come down so low. The same remark applies 

 equally to several of the other shooting grounds 

 that we visited. 



" Kornupeli on the Morea is to the north- 

 east, about thirty miles from Chiazenza. From 

 this anchorage we got our best shooting in the 

 Morea. The ground of Palametochi showed the 

 most sport. Near the convent of the above name 

 are some small woods, with strong undercover of 

 blackthorn, very difficult to work through. Ad- 

 jacent to these is one very large wood, which, 

 owing to the strength of the blackthorn, is nearly 

 impossible to beat. We could not get the Clum- 

 ber spaniels to go far into the cover away from 

 their master, and the kirtled Greeks did not in 

 fact, could not face the thorns, so that we did 

 not half beat these covers, which will partly ac- 



