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Kinlocii is a joint master with Sir David Baird, are 

 at East Saltoun^ a mile from Pencaithland. Will 

 Williamson was born a few miles from here, and they 

 clo say that in later years he carried the green collar 

 out of the country. They hunt the whole of Had- 

 dington and Berwickshire up to Ay ton Castle, and 

 go as far as Dalkeith, White Hill, and J\Ielville 

 Castle in Edinburghshire. The Stone country, which 

 is twenty miles away, has been recently given up to 

 the Duke. Mr. Hope is the secretary, and they 

 hunt three days a week, and about two-and-forty 

 scarlets have been mustered at times. There are 

 sometimes eight or ten officers, and the farmers are 

 beginning to come out more and more every season, 

 and well mounted to boot. 



Arniston country holds the best scent, and is, in 

 fact, the only grass country. The res'c is nearly all 

 under plough, and its drains, sheep, and manure 

 militate sadly against scent ; while the v/ild goats of 

 many colours on the Lammer Law are often as 

 tempting to the young hounds as roe deer. In the 

 Gladsmuir country, which extends to Blackshiels, 

 they get on to the Lammermoors for those fine wild 

 runs which Williamson loved, and carry a great 

 head over the heather. There are a few good gorse 

 covers, Whitbury, li miles from .^altoun, the Hope- 

 town Monument, Shilling Hill, and KilldufF, which 

 consists of fifteen acres fenced in at one corner of this 

 grand nursery for foxes. The seventy or eighty acres 

 of Killduff Wood bear an immense amount of sifting 



