HOUNDS OF ENGLAND. 



39 



NORTHUMBERLAND. 



FOXHOUNDS. 



Lord Elcho keeps his hounds in Scotland durino^ the sum- 

 mer, and brings them over the Border for his winter^s sport. 

 He has a good hunting country, with large fields, of 50 or 

 100 acres each, in the vale; and the Moors are dry^ l^iHy, 

 and without rocks. It may he considered, also, an easy 

 country to cross — no banks, and but few ditches. The fields 

 divided on the hills by light stone Avails, and in the vale by 

 thorn hedges, which appear to have been all planted within 

 the last 25 years. Foxes are sufficiently plentiful, the runs 

 very wild, and the sport generally good. Head quarters, at 

 Belford. 



The Tindale hunt the south of Northumberland. 



