120 The Hunting Countries of England, 



THE BEDALE.* 



By no means the worst of tlie Yorkshire Countries are 

 The Bedale and Lord Zetland\s — which_, by the way, 

 have so many points in common that taking them in 

 succession gives little room for any incisive comparison. 

 Diffuse description of both would involve considerable 

 repetition ; for much that may be said of The Bedale 

 will naturally apply equally to Lord Zetland^s. Both 

 are divided pretty equally between low level vale, and 

 hills rising into moorland. Both of them possess more 

 grass than is found in the other countries of York- 

 shire — their hills being almost entirely turf, and their 

 vale mixed grazing land and plough. The fences, 

 whether on hill or vale, are very similar with either 

 Hunt — as we shall see : and the scenting properties 

 in either territory are on the whole very much on a 

 par. 



The two countries occupy the north-west border of 

 Yorkshire, take in the beds of the several rivers 

 running along the foot of the hills that border on 

 Westmoreland — and the fox is hunted as far up the 

 latter as rock and moorland allow. 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheet 5, and Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



