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These hounds hunt the country which Mr. Ralph Lambton 

 once hunted, and are managed by a committee, of which 

 Colonel Tower, of Elemor Hall, near Durham, is the field- 

 principal. They hunt the country in the same w^ay that Mr. 

 Kalph Lambton did ; that is, part of the season from their 

 kennels near Durham, and part from Sedgefield. Mr. R. 

 Lambton sold his hounds either to Lord Suffield or Gardner, 

 but they were not liked in Leicestershire. Mr. Robertson 

 then bought and took them into Northumberland, kept them 

 for a few years, and then sold them by auction, in lots ; so 

 that now there is no pack going which could be said to have 

 belonged to Mr. Ralph Lambton. However, soon after his 

 death, Mr. Williamson, known as Billy Williamson, esta- 

 blished a pack, " The Durham County,^' and hunted them 

 for two seasons, when Lord Londonderry took them, and 

 from him they came to the present committee. Of late years, 

 commerce has laid its iron claws on Durham, and the face 

 of the country has been sadly disfigured by railways ; still, 

 fox-hunting prevails. 



There is another pack in Durham, called ^^the Cleveland,^' 

 of which we regret we cannot furnish particulars, being un- 

 informed on the subject. 



