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flat Down for three or four miles, and then a steep descent, 

 after which they ascend a Hill almost perpendicular : at the 

 Top is a large whin cover into which then Hares beat many 

 capital Greyhounds, and perhaps it is the only place in England 

 where a Hare was ever seen to beat for four miles over Turf a 

 brace of the best Greyhounds that could be produced.' 



There is record of a course which took place in February 

 1798, when a pair of greyhounds belonging to Mr. James 

 Courtall of Carlisle killed a hare after running her seven miles : 

 the hare, which was given 200 yards' law, was one that had 

 often been coursed and had always easily beaten the grey- 

 hounds : she proved to be a comparatively small one, weighing 

 8 lbs. 11 oz. 



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