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foxes are wild and stout. The Taunton vale country 

 touches the Cattistock in this direction, and offers a 

 fine open area for a travelling fox. The principal 

 meets are North Perrot, for Coker Wood and Hasel- 

 bury Park, and Winyards Gap for Somersetshire Holt, 

 &c. Between the vale and the hills — or rather where 

 the vale works in re-entering angles into the hill — is 

 the fixture of Rampisham House (the residence of an 

 excellent friend to the sport, Mr. Arthur Martin), the 

 main coverts being Rampisham Big Wood, Wraxall 

 Wood, and the smaller Wood of Inn Park. 



Bordering on Blackmoor Yale territory, and on 

 ground similar to the best of that Hunt, is the meet of 

 Glanville^s Wootton, with Mr. Dale's good coverts of 

 Woodfalls, Wootton Wood, and Round Chimnies, &c. ; 

 and in the Cattistock territory proper is that of Drive- 

 end Melbury (Lord Ilchester's, for Briars Wood, The 

 Brick Kiln, and the Melbury coverts). 



There is vale again on the west, by Bridport. But 

 the district between Bridport and Beaminster is 

 seldom visited, while beyond it to the west is 

 altogether unhunted ground. 



But the favourite country of the Hunt — the apple 

 of its eye — is the Waddon Vale on the sea border to 

 the south. This is nearly all grass, in the form of dairy 

 meadows; its coverts are all small — nothing larger 

 than ten acres of gorse or hazel existing ; and, limited 

 as is its breadth, it is productive of frequent and 

 charming sport. Its backbone is found in the Hardy 

 Monument Coverts — some hundreds of acres of 

 scattered gorse, on the brow of the hill. These form 

 a most invaluable nursery, whence foxes roam, or are 



