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Broug-ht forward. . . . 

 Tuesday, March 16th, 1830. 



Met at Bitcombe Wood, near Wanstrow ; — find- 

 ing- a brace of Foxes in Postlebury Wood (of 200 acres) 

 and going aAvay immediately with a very bad scent 

 indeed ( the wind north-west, with hail-storms 

 blowing- up ) to Lord Cork's, and through Orrery 

 Wood, across the vale nearly to Longleat, where he 

 was coursed by a cur and lost, after a slow run of one 

 hour and twenty minutes. Drew Hicks's Park, and 

 West End Wood in our way back, but did not find, the 

 Foxes being- supposed to be stopped in, as we could 

 hall them 



Friday, March 19th. 



The Blackmoor Vale Hounds met at Henstridg-e 

 Ash on this day, at ten o'clock, and after trying- the 

 Fifehead Mag-dalene Covers without finding-, were thrown 

 into the Cover of Inwood, in the parish of Henstridg-e, 

 at a quarter before 12, and in five minutes afterwards 

 precisely, were capped away close to the brush of the 

 most gallant Fox ever seen in the West of England ; 

 making their way at the top of their speed across Toomer 

 Farm to Stalbridge Park, which they traversed at a racing 

 pace, topping the park wall at the eastern extremity near 

 the town, and sinking the wind for the fine and exten- 

 sive vale beneath it, which they crossed at a pace 

 inconceivable by those who did not witness it ; going 

 over Henstridge Marsh, and nearly to Fifehead Mag- 

 dalene, crossing the turnpike at the Five-Bridges, and 

 dashing into the River Cale, in one compact and solid 

 body, and away for the wide enclosures of Nyland, and 

 thence, without a check or turn, to Kington Magna, 

 (the summit of whose hill they reached in forty-five 

 minutes, by the watch) ; pointing for West Stower, 

 but skirting that village, and getting down very nearly 

 to East Stower, and within two miles of Duncliif Wood, 



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