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LORD POUTMAN'S.* 



LoED Portman's (the East Dorset) country is part of 

 the extraordinary extent of gound hunted until the 

 year 1858 by the late Mr. J. J. Farquharson. If only 

 as a curiosity of fox-hunting history, it is worth 

 putting on record that the territory held and hunted 

 for many years solely by that gentleman, included the 

 whole of the present countries of Lord Portman, Mr. 

 Eadclyffe (the South Dorset), and the Cattistock, 

 besides parts of the present Blackmoor Yale, Lord 

 Eadnor's, and South-and-West Wilts. The huntsman 

 who worked this immense country for him was John 

 Treadwell, father of the Old Berkshire huntsman — once 

 so celebrated with the Quorn. 



On Mr. Farquharson's retirement, Lord Portman 

 established his present pack at his seat at Bryanston, 

 close to the little town of Blandford, to hunt a district 

 of which Blandford, Stourminster, Shaftesbury, and 

 Cranborne are outline points. In this area are in- 

 cluded a large strip of the Stour Yale or Yale of 

 Blackmore, a considerable extent of lofty down, many 

 strong woods besides the forest-like expanse of Cran- 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map/' Sheets 21 and 22, and 

 Hohson's Foxhunting Atlas. 



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