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THE WHEATLAND.* 



The western bank of the Severn, from Wellington 

 down to Bevvdley, provides the two-day-a-week 

 country of the Wheatland Pack. On the other side 

 the river is the Albrighton territory — and two more 

 widely dififering countries it would be difficult to 

 conceive. Without driving the comparison through 

 minor points, it is sufficient to put forward that 

 whereas the Albrighton is practically and almost 

 entirely flat, the Wheatland is formed altogether of 

 great rolling hills and deep glens. In other words, 

 the Severn here gets all its rush of water from the 

 "Wheatland side, and is fed only by quiet streams from 

 the other. Or, for a third definition, the Wheatland 

 is on the Welsh bank, the Albrighton is on lower 

 and tamer ground. The hills and dales of the former 

 are ofishoots of a mountainous sphere which becomes 

 more and more confirmed as you travel further west ; 

 while here on the east the river forms a main drain to 

 carry ofi" the water along its base. Two other points 

 of comparison that may be brought forward are, first, 

 that the Wheatland is the better scenting country of 



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

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



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