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are good and extensive coverts of Lord Mansfield's ; 

 and at Rammerscales others — steep hill-side coverts 

 and deep glens — belonging to Major Bell-McDonald. 

 Rockhall is carefully preserved by Mr. Young, who 

 has the place from Sir A. Grierson, of Lagg. Close 

 to Dumfries are Tinwald Downs ; and in the centre of 

 the country are the nice hunting coverts at Dormount 

 (Mrs. Carruthers') and at Kirkwood (Mr. A. Steel's). 

 The Kennels are at Leafield, some half-dozen miles 

 from Lockerbie, and are well placed and healthy. 

 The pack has been much benefited of late years by 

 drafts from Belvoir, to add to good northern blood 

 already in Kennel. The history of the hounds and 

 the Hunt is briefly this. In 1842 Colonel Salkeld, of 

 Holm Hill, in Cumberland, set up a pack of fox- 

 hounds ; of which, however, about six years after- 

 wards he made a present to his Kennel-huntsman 

 Joseph Graham. The latter brought them over the 

 border, and established himself and them at the Blue 

 Bell Hotel, Lockerbie — hunting them thence for a 

 season, with what help he could get on the spot. The 

 following year he had a regular subscription of some 

 two or three hundred pounds ; after which the late 

 Lord Drumlanrig (afterwards Marquis of Queensberry) 

 took them in hand and made up deficiencies. Mr. 

 Carruthers of Dormount next became Master for 

 several seasons ; and the present Lord Queensberry 

 then held them for two years. He was succeeded in 

 1870 by Mr. Johnstone of Halleaths; who at the 

 expiration of a ten-years' Mastership was presented 

 with his picture by the members of the Hunt. Mr. 

 Louis Salkeld is now enterins: on his third season in 



