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X. — Miscellanea. 



Remarkable Instinct in a Foxhound. — " Abelard," a Foxhound, 

 four years of age, was brought up at Greening Kennels, near 

 Lesbury. He was never from home except at exercise and out 

 hunting. On the 4th of April, 1882, he was taken to Corbridge 

 by train, and from thence to the Tynedale Kennels, a distance of 

 about fifty miles, where he arrived safely, and remained there 

 from the 4th until the 10th. On the lOth of April, at four p.m., 

 he escaped out of the grass yard. Next morning, at 6.10 a.m., 

 he was seen in the kennel field at Greening. 



The Hounds having left the kennels that morning at six a.m. 

 to meet at Titlington Hall, about nine miles from home, they 

 first drew Beanley Wood, and found, but could not do much, as 

 scent was bad in covert. A second Pox was found on the moor, 

 and after a fast run of twenty minutes returned to the wood, and 

 got to ground. "When the Hounds were drawn out of covert 

 "Abelard" came out with them. A third Fox was found on 

 the moor, and killed after a good hour and ten minutes, '"Abe- 

 lard" running at the head of the pack as usual all the time. 

 Had another slow hunting run to ground, after which the 

 Hounds returned home, arriving at the kennels at five p.m. 



The Hounds went to covert through the Park at Alnwick, the 

 huntsman locking the door in the Park wall after him. "Abe- 

 lard" therefore, in going from Greening to Titlington, could not 

 have followed precisely in their track. — Communicated bij Earl 

 Percy. 



On a Perched Block of Sandstone in Ltmedale. — In June of the 

 last year, 1881, when the Tyneside Field Club visited Middle- 

 ton-in-Teesdale, High Force, and the neighbourhood, a Block of 

 Stone attracted the attention of several of the party in journey- 

 ing through Lunedale. This block is a noticeable one, upon 

 the gently sloping surface of a field, on the north side of the 

 road from Middleton to Brough in Westmorland, by way of the 

 bridge called that of " The Grains of the Beck." This bridc'c 



