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^F such as are 'the usual food of goats." — Gahn, lib. vi. 

 cap. 6.* 



By smell the dog discovers the truffle, although the root 

 be buried deep under ground. 



The huntsman who means to surprise the wild boar, is 

 obliged always to proceed in a contrary direction to the 

 wind. 



Crows are said to smell gunpowder half a mile off. 



If a moth be put into a box, and the top be covered with 

 gauze, and placed any where in a garden, other moths of 

 the same species are sure to be conducted there and taken 

 m the place. 



Having the Hirsute Stapelia in my drawing-room, which 

 smells life carrion, the window being opened, in less than 

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 the act of blowing it. 



In a place where there is a decoy for ducks, the master 

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 his mouth, or every duck would at once rise, by know- 

 ing the enemy's advance from his breath. Out of revenge 

 a man, half a mile off, put a little assafcetida in his pipe, 

 and not a duck but took flight, and left the decoy-yard 

 from a dislike to the smell. 



The attachment, on the contrary, of cats for valerian, 

 and their perception of it at a distance, is a well known 

 tact. 



The agency of smells in the animal ceconomy has been 

 too little considered. 



Haller, whose authority is great, says ft that infants are 

 first conducted to the breast from instinct alone, before they 

 possess the least understanding/ ' 



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