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Kettledrum, Dundee, Regal, St. Louis, among others) 

 was then master till 1873, when Lord Castlereagh 

 took them for two years. Major Godman had them 

 for four seasons ; since which Mr. Cookson has again 

 held the mastership. 



The position of the Hurworth country is half in 

 Durham, half in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and 

 it runs north and south, with the Bedale and Lord 

 Zetland^s on its western border, the Cleveland and 

 Sinnington on its eastern. With the two former 

 Hunts it shares the stiff clay vale running between 

 the Westmoreland Hills on the one side and the high 

 moorlands of North Yorkshire on the other. The 

 course of the railway from Northallerton northwards, 

 to either Preston junction or Darlington, offers a fair 

 insight into the description of ground to which the 

 Hurworth confine their operations. The frowning 

 crags of the Hambleton Hills are included in the 

 south of their country ; but they are held to be as 

 unhuntable as they are unrideable, and so, in point of 

 fact, the Hurworth hounds are confined strictly to the 

 well-watered vale below. Rivers and brooks wind 

 about the lowland almost as freely where it belongs to 

 the Hurworth as where it is hunted by the Bedale or 

 Lord Zetland^s. The Tees flows past tbe Kennels and 

 across the north of the country, dividing Durham from 

 Yorkshire — a wide river with few bridges and fewer 

 fords. The Leven and its wooded banks — which the 

 stranger in his ignorance might credit with being 

 the home of numberless foxes — winds down half its 

 length ] the Wisk cuts across its centre, and down its 

 western border ; while the Cod and other minor 



