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terms. Horse provender is reasonable and 

 good ; oats are the produce of the soil, and 

 free from the very obnoxious process of kiln 

 drying so prevalent in many districts where 

 foreign corn forms the principal bulk. I can 

 safely assert that oats so treated are very 

 prejudicial to the health of those horses vrhich 

 are compelled to consume them. The north- 

 west boundary of the Burton Hunt extends 

 to Gainsborough, nineteen miles from Lin- 

 coln, and the Great Northern railway affords 

 communication between these two places. 

 Market Rasen, on the north-eastern extre- 

 mity, fifteen miles distant by the road, is 

 accessible also by the Manchester, Sheffield, 

 and Lincolnshire line. Northward of a pa- 

 rallel line extended from Gainsborough to 

 Market Rasen lies the Brocklesby country, 

 and on the east the South Wold, wliich 

 traverses south to Tattershall, a town not to 

 be approached from Lincoln much under 

 eighteen miles, by reason of dykes and drains 

 communicating with the river Witham. The 

 Lincolnshire and Boston branch of the Great 

 Northern runs by Tattershall, and a direct 

 line from there to Newark will indicate very 

 nearlv the demarcation between this and the 



