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The cross, therefore, would not necessarily be destruc- 
tive of all scenting capacities, and it is notorious that the 
new high-bred racing foxhound has deteriorated greatly 
from the old Southern hound, and somewhat from the old 
English foxhound,in nose. He is less capable of picking 
out a cold scent foot by foot on a bad scenting day, but on 
the other hand he comes away with his fox, on finding, with 
such a dash, and keeps up so wonderful a stroke of speed, 
with such endurance and pluck, that, in any tolerable 
weather, the scent has no chance to grow cold, and that, on 
a good hunting day, no fox that was ever unkennelled can 
live before him an hour, or any ordinary one half that 
time. 
No horse but one thoroughbred, or, if not tracing 
directly to Barb blood on both sides, with at least seven 
or eight crosses of pure blood, can by any chance -live 
through a run of an hour with fourteen stone on his back 
within sight or hearing of them, and no horse not the son 
of a thoroughbred sire, at least, could stay one mile at 
their pace. 
They are truly wonderful animals, with speed equal to 
that of a slow greyhound, dash and courage equal to any 
thing, and scent amply sufficient to sustain their other 
powers. 
There may be, as I have said, and probably is, a very 
remote, perhaps ten or fifteen times removed cross of grey- 
hound blood in them, but I am satisfied that there is no 
bull-dog, unless what may have come through the grey- 
hound, which we know has an infusion of that strain intro- 
ducet by Lord Orford. 
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