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many of which are grass. And this part is usually 

 termed the Chawton district — its limits being com- 

 prised within a line drawn from about Bentley Station, 

 by Alton, to Faringdon in the Selbourn neighbour- 

 hood. Mr. Stanford's map, by the way, by no means 

 gives accurately the boundary of H.H. on this side; 

 as it extends eastward here as far as Farnham — 

 besides which, it should be added, \\\q Woolmer 

 Forest is a tract which no less than four packs claim 

 a right to draw, viz., the H.H., Mr. Richard Combe's, 

 the Hambledon, and Lord Leconfield's. In point of 

 fact, the limits of the H.H. country in this direction 

 have been so frequently altered, by loan of territory 

 and otherwise, during the last half-century, that 

 modern custom — rather than ancient right — has to do 

 with its present geography. The Monday country, 

 then, takes the south-eastern corner ; and extends 

 northward about as far as Preston Oakhills. Of its meets 

 Medstead Green, Windmill Hill — Bradley, Preston 

 Oakhills (where there is a very large covert), New 

 Inn — Lasham, and Lasham Village are all on the 

 lighter and more open ground. Chawton House is 

 considered the best meet in the Hunt, and lies among 

 the stiffest of the banks and ditches — some of which 

 are too formidable for the powers of any horse. 

 Between Chawton and Hartley there is more turf 

 than is to be found elsewhere in the dominion ; and it 

 is quite the best scenting ground. Binstead Church, 

 Hartley, and the Temple (near Selbourn) are other 

 fixtures in the bank-and-ditch country ; and Rother- 

 field Park, near Alton, is also a Monday meet. 



Taking it all through, however, there is perhaps 



