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other kind of animal, similar in taste to the 

 squirrels. 



The Americans shoot and eat most of 

 these animals as game, except the foxes. 

 They are taken by men who hunt all night 

 with dogs and guns. The better sort of 

 people enjoy no other diversion on horse- 

 back than fox-hunting, which by an Eng- 

 lish sportsman would be deemed very in- 

 different pastime. The fox which these 

 night-hunters take, and sell for five or six 

 dollars, is put into a bag, and turned off in 

 some open place, which is never half a mile 

 from a wood ; therefore there is only wood- 

 hunting : and, although the woods do not 

 abound with under-wood, yet they con- 

 tain enough of it to prevent the horsemen 

 from galloping. At Baltimore is an Eng- 

 lish huntsman, who is well acquainted with 

 the management of hounds. Considering, 

 however, the great irregularities of the hunt- 

 ers, in hallooing and cracking their whips, 

 &c. the hounds perform wonders. Appa- 

 rently the highest enjoyment of the horse- 



