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the Tynedale, and it shows the division of Sir M. W. Ridley's 

 original country into two smaller ones — an arrangement which 

 was probably called for by the fact that hunting men generally 

 were then crying out for a greater number of days in each 

 area of the hunt. Sir M. W. Ridley's original country must 

 have been very large, including the Tynedale (north of the 

 Tyne), the Morpeth, and probably parts of the Percy, and 

 possibly of the Coquetdale, and it is plain enough that few 

 parts of this huge district could have received all the atten- 

 tion they required. I notice, by the way, that the reference 

 to Mr. Robertson, of Lees, and the Northumberland and 

 North Durham hunt has been eliriiinated frcaii thei later editions 

 of Baity, and I have no doubt Mr. Straker will agree that the 

 pack just mentioned never came near the Tynedale country. 

 I may add that in a former letter from the same valued corre- 

 spondent I have been quoting that gentleman pointed out 

 that parts of County Durham were not many years ago located 

 on Tweedside, and it may be that on this account a pack 

 which hunted the northern part of the former county were 

 known as the Northumberland and North Durham. 



Fro'm time to' time maps of th.o hunting countiries of 

 England have been published, and on© of these was brought 

 out in the early 'fifties, which showed the Tynedale country 

 as extending over all the weistiern portion of the Braes of Der- 

 went hunt, and all the eastern part of the Haydon country. 

 I am writing away from home, and therefore perhaps readers 

 will excuse further reference to what I have written before. 

 I ha.ve, however, found a, more recent map called " A Hunt 

 Map of England and Wales," and this wasi publish^ed in 1880. 

 It gives the Tynedale noi country whatever south, of the Tyne, 

 and it extends the Braes of Derwent country toi tie line of the 

 Devils Water, and thence tO' the head of the Derwent River 

 near Riddlehamhope. As a matter of fact. both, maps are 

 wrong aa regards the Tynedale, for though that pack, as 

 far as I kno'W, never drew covert/s in the western part of th^e 

 Derwent Valley, they, as successorsi to the Slaley, most cer- 

 tainly included in their country a great, deal of what is now 

 Braes of Derwent country, and also' a big slice of the Haydon 

 country. There are, however, working agreiements between 

 the Tynedale and its neighbours, by virtue of which the Bra,e3 



