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and the West Somerset and Exmoor foxhounds, 

 Mr. Holt Needham's, with kennels at Galhampton, 

 near Bath, number twenty-two couples of eighteen 

 and a half-inch harriers, mostly pure-bred. They 

 hunt a country of about fourteen square miles in East 

 Somerset, almost entirely consisting of pasture, with 

 but 5 per cent, plough. The Quarme hunt over a 

 large area in Somerset and North Devon, in a fine 

 wild district, consisting mainly of pasture and moor- 

 land, uncontaminated by wire. This country lies 

 within the borders of the Devon and Somerset stag- 

 hounds and the West Somerset, Exmoor, and Dulverton 

 foxhounds. The kennels are at Exford, the nearest 

 station being Dulverton, twelve miles distant. Few 

 pack of hounds are more remote from a station than 

 this, at all events in England. The pack consists of 

 sixteen couples of eighteen and a half-inch pure harriers, 

 which are entered in the harrier and beagle Stud-book. 

 Mr. Morland Greig, the present Master, himself carries 

 the horn, and has done since 1900, in which year the 

 hounds were presented to him by the late Mr. W. L. 

 Chorley, who had maintained them at Quarme for forty 

 years. Mr. Chorley himself bought the hounds at the 

 sale of the effects of the late Captain Evered, of Stone 

 Lodge, Exton, Somerset. The Seavington has a large 

 area of country in Somerset and Dorset, over which 

 it hunts two days a week. The pack consists of four- 

 teen and a half couples of twenty-inch pure harriers 

 and cross-bred hounds, and is kennelled at Seavington, 

 near Ilminster. The country is an excellent one, 

 chiefly in the Blackmore Vale, Cattistock, and Taunton 

 Vale foxhound region, with flying fences and wide 

 ditches. The Stainton Drew, a pasture country in 

 North Somerset, with some moorland on the Mendips, 

 is hunted two days a week by a mixed pack of twenty- 

 one and a half-inch foxhounds and harriers, seventeen 



