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New Forest : experience has proved that 

 the country at times brings on an in- 

 curable lameness; and no master of hounds, 

 to my knowledge, who has ever hunted it, 

 could find out the real cause. It has been 

 attributed by some people to the kennel, — 

 but why should all the kennels in the 

 Forest lame hounds ? It is well known, 

 that, when kept by the late Mr. Compton, 

 in a kennel built on an eminence, they had 

 the lameness to a great degree. In the 

 present day, it is the same in a kennel 

 built some distance from it. There are 

 persons who have attributed it to the " foot 

 furze," a plant peculiar to the Forest, and 

 which I have seen prick hounds' feet so 

 severely, that it prevented their carrying 

 that head they were in the constant habit 

 of doing. Others fancy it is owing to their 

 jumping the high paling surrounding the 

 new inclosures : it cannot be that ; or why 

 should the lameness have occurred before 



