102 ALPINE BAR E. Class I. 



fupply a fufficient number, vaft quantities are an- 

 nually imported from Rujfia and Siberia. 



The hare was reckoned a great delicacy among 

 the Romans'^ \ the Britains^ on the contrary, thought 

 it impious even to taile itf ^ yet this animal was 

 cultivated by them; either for the pleafure of the 

 chace ; or for the purpofes of fuperftition, as we are 

 informed that Boadicia^ immediately before her Jaft 

 conflid with the Romans., let loofe a hare (he had 

 concealed in her bofom, which taking what v/as 

 deemed a fortunate courle, animated her foldie's by 

 the omen of an eafy vidory over a timid enemy J. 



fi I . Alpine. Lepus hieme albus ForJ^er hijl. nat. Alpine Hare. Syn. quad, 

 Volgo^. Ph. 7>. LVII. 343. No. 184. 



THE Alpine hare inhabits thefummits of the 

 highland mountains, never defcends into the 

 vales, or mixes with the common fpecies which is 

 frequent in the bottoms: it lives among the rocks 



* Inter aves turdus, fi quid me judice verum: 



Inter quadrupedes gloria prima Lepus. Martial. 13. 02. 



t Leporem et gallina7n et anferem giijiare fas non putam : hcec 

 tamen alunt, animi 'voluptatifque caufa. Csefar. Com. lib. v. 



X Taura UTrao-a 'Kv.'^m (xsv ek in w>m\ij Sec. Xiphilini Epitome 

 Dionif. 173, 



with 



