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ingenuity of the explorer himself ; and thus all allu- 

 sions to the comparative accessibility of different 

 hunting quarters is to be taken with regard to 

 London as the starting point. 



Stanford's Large Scale Eailway and Station Maps 

 will be taken as illustrating and fixing the topography 

 of the work in question. These are coloured to show 

 the divisions of England into hunts_, and will be found 

 as accurate as such frequently-shifting and often 

 indefinite geography can well be. Being on a scale 

 of three miles to an inch^ they are of sufficient size 

 to admit of all the principal points and features of a 

 country being shown ^ and yet are not over- crowded 

 with unnecessary names. They are in twenty-four 

 sheets — each sheet being 28in. by 20in. The price 

 of each sheet is — plain Is., mounted in case 2^. 6c?. ; 

 coloured Is. Qd., in case 3s. The coloured ones, mounted 

 in case, are much to be preferred for our purpose. 



As we have inferred before, our object will be to 

 sketch out a menu, from which men may choose as 

 their appetite prompts. 



It is not every one who enjoys the presence of a 

 crowd, who loves the rush and scramble of three or 

 four hundred people struggHng for a start, or who 

 even cares for the thrill of a dashing burst over the 

 grass. Nor, again, is it every one to whom the sight 

 of hounds picking* their way over a cold fallow is a 

 thing of joy, nor does every one appreciate the crash 

 of a woodland or the blind plunge down a deep ride. 

 Yerily some men hunt to ride, some ride to hunt, and 

 others, thank heaven, double their fun by doing 

 both. Chacun a son gout. Let us try and show where 



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