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Durham. The river Tees divides the two counties, 

 almost bisects the Hunt, and here and there does no 

 little mischief by its presence — with its wooded^ 

 rocky, and dangerous banks, among which hounds 

 can often scarcely get about, much less force a fox 

 away. Aske is on the edge of what are here known 

 as the Yorkshire Hills, and overhang the vale running 

 up the east of the country — much as farther north 

 Eaby Castle is between the Durham Hills and the 

 Durham Vale. 



A continuation of the Bedale, Lord Zetland's 

 Country runs along the side and base of the moorland 

 hills with which Westmoreland encroaches upon York- 

 shire. The same grassy slopes, the same heathery 

 summits, and the same well -watered plain, are 

 common to both. More use is, perhaps, made of the 

 wild good-scenting moorlands of the latter : but in 

 the main the two countries are very similar. Lord 

 Zetland's has none of the light sandy plough into 

 which The Bedale drifts in the far south. His vale is 

 nearly all the same as the best of the Bedale low 

 country (mixed grass and plough — the latter pre- 

 dominating) : and the fences also are much alike — 

 easy hedge-and-ditch, occasionally, but not often, on 

 low banks. The hedges grow wild and unkempt ; 

 but are seldom of formidable strength. Timber is 

 but little used ; gaps being generally made up, where 

 such labour is considered necessary, with wattle and 

 thorns. You will have a great deal of jumping; knd 

 every opportunity of making a horse clever, without 

 trying him too high. The jumps are such as an 

 ordinary hunter will make light of. The clay of the 

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