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Published Sept.20.1788, by J. Stockdale.

Heath sculp

LONDON

Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly,

1788.

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 ge-
neral 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,

ТНЕ СНАСЕ: А РОЕ М.
By WILLIAM SOMERVILE, Efq.

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

Οὕτω δὲ ἐπιχαρι ἐσι το θηριόν, ὥστε ἐδεὶς ὅτις οὐκ ἂν ἰδὼν ἰχνευόμενοι, εὐρισκόμενον, μεταθεόμενον, ἁλισκόμενον ἐπιλάθοιτ ̓ 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 Midsummer Night's Dream.