Stothard del.

Published Sopt.20.1788. by I. Stockdate.

FHeath sculp

OR,

ESSAYS ON SPORTING:

CONSISTING OF

OBSERVATIONS

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HARE HUNTING:

CONTAINING,

An Account of the Hare Hunting and Courfing of the Ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian :-A Philofophical Enquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Scent :-Remarks on the different Kinds of Hounds, with the Manner of training them :-Directions for the Choice of a Hunter: The Qualifications requifite for a Huntsman :-And other general Rules to be observed in every Contingency incident to the Chace,

Together with

An Account of the Vizier's Manner of Hunting in the Mogul Empire.

By WILLIAM BLANE, Efq.

To which is added,

THE CHACE: A POE M.

By WILLIAM SOMERVILE, Efq.

A new Edition, embellished with an elegant Frontispiece and a Vignette.

Ούτω δὲ ἐπιχαρι ἐσι το θηριόν, ὥσε εδεὶς ὅεις οὐκ ἂν ἰδὼν ἔχνευόμενου, ευρισκόμενον, μεταθεόμενον, αλισκόμενον ἐπιλάθοντ ̓ ἂν εἴτε ἐρωη. XENOPH. Cуneg.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
So flew'd, fo fanded, and their heads are hung
With ears that fweep away the morning dew;
Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd, like Theffalian bulls;
Slow in purfuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,
Each under each. A cry more tuneable

Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn.

SHAKESPEARE's Midfummer Night's Dream.