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Lancelot Rolleston (son of the above) and Mr. 

 P. H. Cooper, who have built the present substantial 

 kennels. 



But apart from its association with names of renown, 

 the South Notts has merits of its own. Certainly, it 

 is not a flying grass country ; it boasts of no resort of 

 fashion ; and attracts few strangers ; while in many 

 parts it has to contend against a teeming manufac- 

 turing population ; and some of its best ground is 

 only now in process of being opened up. But it has 

 a strong body of county residents to lean upon ; and 

 it meets with staunch and substantial support from the 

 whole society corporate within the fold of the city of 

 Nottingham. It has good foxes and plenty of them; 

 capital grounds for making hounds, and innumerable 

 excellent walks for rearing its puppies — the last virtue 

 constituting not only a point of .excellence in itself, 

 but a proof that the farmers really love fox-hunting. 

 It is chiefly plough, and the greater part of its area 

 is hilly; but it generally carries a fair scent, and 

 hounds work well over it. 



The position of the South Notts may be described 

 as having the Quorn along its southern edge, the 

 Meynell on the west, the Belvoir on the east, and the 

 Rufford on the north. Its boundaries follow the Trent 

 along the south-west from Belper nearly to Notting- 

 ham, and the streams of the Smite and the Devon all 

 up the east. Its other limits are defined by custom 

 rather than by nature, and are correctly set down on 

 the chart; though Mr. Stanford's rendering of the 

 neutral corner of Sherwood Forest (in the north) must 

 not be taken as too strictly accurate — Thieves' Wood, 



