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of game supposed to exist in it ; but the rates are, as a rale, 

 very low, especially if compared to what would be paid 

 under similar circumstances in England. In the outlying 

 rural districts, distant from any market towns, or where 

 there may be but few resident proprietors inclined to hire 

 the communal shootings, or where there is but little game, 

 about fifty or one hundred florins * may be taken as the 

 average annual rent of the shooting of a commune ; whilst 

 in the neighbourhood of large towns, or in localities where 

 game is more than usually abundant, as much as six hundred 

 florins is frequently paid. 



It may be as well here to remark that a system of fences, 

 or other mode of enclosing the land, is scarcely known in 

 Bavaria; the boundary of each separate field or plot of 

 ground being, as a general rule, marked by corner stones 

 only, or by narrow paths. 



In cases where a plot of land, consisting of less than the 

 required two hundred and forty or four hundred acres, is 

 completely surrounded by an extent of land belonging to 

 one'and the same person, sufficient to carry with it the rights 

 of the chase, then the owner of the latter has the power of 

 claiming the right to kill the game on the smaller piece of 

 land so surrounded by his own, provided he pays to its 

 owner an indemnity fixed according to the rates current for 

 the hire of shootings in the district in which such land may 

 be situated. 



The chief descriptions of game found in Bavaria are (in the 

 plains and cultivated lands generally), hares, and the common 

 grey partridge ; and in the woods and copses, with which 

 this country is thickly studded, roe deer in considerable 

 numbers, the latter being a kind of game which is much 

 prized by German sportsmen. Indeed, from the German 

 point of view, the roe deer constitute the leading and most 

 attractive feature in the various elements of the chase in 

 this country. Pheasants are rare, being only found in the 

 * Twelve Bavarian florins are equal to 1 sterling. 



