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fog was so intense that we could hardly see each other, 



and for a time we lost the Hounds. After a check of 



fifteen minutes we got the Hounds tog-ether and hit him !^ 



off again towards the Earths at King-'s Wood, and over 



them with a bad, catching scent for Brewham Wood, and 



through Brewham Forest to the deep and heavy vale of 



North Brewham, and thence without a turn to Upton 



Noble, and for Asham Wood at the base of the Mendip 



Hills; from which Cover (a Cover of 600 acres and 



full of rocky precipices and main Earths) he was 



turned by a woman who headed him in the turnpike 



road. The Hounds still held the line, from this place 



over the Commons to Nunny; and thence at a foot's 



pace to Postlebary Great AVood (of 214 acres) which 



he skirted, and on to Marston Forest ; through the 



whole of which they carried him on rather better terms, 



and onward to the fine and deep Covers of the Marquis 



of Bath, at Longleat, where, bi/ a forward cast of two 



miles they got up to him again, carrying as fine a head 



as they did in the commencement of the day, and working 



him in killing style through the spacious and beautiful 



Covers of the Duke of Somerset (of at least 1000 acres:) 



the foot people, the Fox, and the Hounds being in vieic 



of each other; the eight horses which remained out of 



a good Field in the morning being unable to make a trot! 



By which means the Fox made his point and got to Earth 



near Bradley Park, a few yards only before the 



Hounds, at ten minutes after four o'clock, after a 



hunting run of Four Hours and Fifty Minutes ; 



covering at the least computation Thirty Miles of 



country during this severe and trying run ! 



Friday, December 22nd, 1826. 



After the extraordinary run of Tuesday last, the 

 Hounds were compelled to rest this day. . 



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