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the following passage from a book published in the 

 year 1849.^ After treating of the Eggesford hounds, 

 the author says : 



" The South Devon hounds come next in succes- 

 sion, that is as regards their country, inasmuch as we 

 by no means presume to give our opinions . . . 

 which are or are not the best and which the worst. . . . 

 But as regards the South Devon hounds, they are a 

 mixed pack, consisting of twenty-five couple, averag- 

 ing from twenty-one to twenty-two inches in height, 

 kept by subscription, and hunted, from all accounts, 

 admirably by Thomas V. Lane, Esqre. ; the kennels 

 are at Chudleigh which is about the centre of the 

 country, which extends sixteen miles or thereabouts 

 on all sides ; they hunt twice a week, on Mondays and 

 Thursdays." 



A few pages later, the same writer, speaking of 

 Mr. Trelawny's country, says : 



" The South Devon Railway divides the country 

 lengthways, from Plymouth to Totnes by Ivy Bridge ; 

 Totnes is in Sir Henry Scale's country, and is in easy 

 reach of the Devon Hounds. ..." 



The fact of the writer applying to the pack its 

 former as well as its present name — Devon as well 

 as South Devon — is a pretty clear indication that 

 the transition from one to the other was then taking 

 effect. 



Forests Guide to the Foxhounds and Staghounds of 

 England (Gelert), dated 1850 but which bears internal 

 evidence of having been compiled in anticipation of 

 the season 1849-50, also speaks of the pack as the 

 South Devon : 



" Sir Henry (Scale) will now hunt a large portion of 

 the late South Devon country, resigned by Mr. Lane." 



^ Exmoor : or, the Footsteps oj St. Hubert in the West (Herbert Byng Hall). 



