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THE SOUTH OXEOEDSHIEE.* 



A TWO-DAYS-A-WEEK CouDtry, Carrying fox-buntiug up 

 to the very gates of Oxford^ the South Oxfordshire 

 completes the quadrilateral, of which that city is the 

 central point, and the Bicester, the Heythrop and the 

 Old Berkshire form the remaining components. Like 

 the others it has its rough and its smooth, its plains 

 and its hills, its vales and its woods ; and like the 

 others it puts the chase in an excellent form within 

 reach of young' Oxford — who never, if they can help 

 it, miss Lord Macclesfield^s Mondays in his Vale. 



The South Oxfordshire Country is bounded on the 

 north by the Bicester, the east by the Old Berkeley, 

 the south by Mr. Garth^s and the South Berkshire, 

 and on the west by the Old Berkshire. The Thames 

 is a rough guide to its western limit as far as Oxford, 

 after which the Cherwell and the Bay take up the 

 march. Turner^s Wood, Shabbington Wood, and 

 Waterperry Wood are within the boundary along the 

 north, though the latter is left out on both the maps 

 alluded to. For the rest it need merely be said that 

 its limits are correctly pencilled on the maps ; and 



* Viih' "Stanford's Large Scale Map," Sheet 15 ; and " Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas." 



