The Sport of Our Jincestors 



Rutland's ; the Earl of Lonsdale's ; the Atherstone, late 

 the Earl of Lichfield's, afterwards Sir John Gerard's, but 

 now Mr. Applewaite's ; and what were so long called the 

 Quorn, now Mr. Errington's, but lately Sir Harry Good- 

 ricke's, who built a kennel for them at Thrussington, half- 

 way between Melton and Leicester, which situation is 

 more in the centre of the country than Quorn, where they 

 had previously been kept for the period of Mr. Meynell's 

 hunting. The county of Leicester, however, does not of 

 itself find room for all these packs : parts of Rutlandshire, 

 Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Warwickshire, are also 

 included in their beat. 



Our readers are doubtless aware that such portion of 

 a country as is hunted by any one pack of hounds is tech- 

 nically called their country ; and of all the countries in the 

 world, the Quorn certainly bears the bell. This superiority 

 arises from the peculiar nature of the soil, which, being for 

 the most part good, is highly favourable to scent ; the 

 immense proportion of grazing land in comparison with 

 that which is ploughed ; and the great size of the enclosures, 

 many of which run to from sixty to one hundred acres each. 

 The rarity of large woods in this part of Leicestershire is 

 also a great recommendation to it as a hunting country ; 

 while it abounds in furze-brakes, or gorse-covers, as they 

 are termed, for the rent of which a considerable annual sum 

 (nearly one thousand pounds) is paid to the owners. Inde- 

 pendently of these, what are termed artificial covers are made 

 with stakes, set at a certain height from the ground for the 

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