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mentioned places, notwithstanding the multitude of market-
people that went along the same road, and of travellers that
had occasion to come; and when the bloodhound came to
the market town, he passed through the streets without
taking notice of any of the people there, and ceased not
till he had gone to the house where the man he sought
rested himself, and where he found him in an upper room,
to the wonder of those who had accompanied him in this
pursuit.”

The sceny 4 Strong characteristic of the Bloodhound is

ofthe of course his remarkable scent for blood.

Bloodhound. «Bjoodhounds,” says Bingley, “were formerly
used in certain districts lying between England and Scot-
land, that were much infested by robbers and murderers,
and a tax was laid on the inhabitants for keeping and
maintaining a certain number of these animals. Some few
are yet kept in the northern parts of the kingdom, and in
the lodges of the royal forests, where they are used in pur-
suit of deer that have been previously wounded. They are
also sometimes employed in discovering deer-stealers, whom
they infallibly trace by the blood that issues from the wounds
of their victims. A very extraordinary instance of this
occurred in the New Forest, in the year 1810, and was
related to me by the Right Hon. G. H. Rose. A person,
in getting over a stile into a field near the Forest, remarked
that there was blood upon it. Immediately afterwards he
recollected that some deer had been killed, and several
sheep stolen in the neighbourhood; and that this might
possibly be the blood of one that had been killed in the
preceding night. The man went to the nearest lodge to
give information; but the keeper being from home, he was
under the necessity of going to Rhinefield Lodge, which
was at a considerable distance. Toomer, the under-keeper,
went with him to the place, accompanied by a bloodhound.
The dog, when brought to the spot, was laid on the scent;