( "3 ) 



The method of treating hogs at this feafbn 

 of migration, and of reducing a large herd of 

 thefe unmanageable brutes to perfect obedience, 

 and good government, is curious. 



The firft flep the fwine-herd takes, is 

 to inveftigate fome clofe iheltered part of 

 the foreft where there is a conveniency of 

 water; and plenty of oak, or beech-mad, the 

 former of which he prefers, when he can have 

 it in abundance*. He fixes next on fome 

 fpreading tree, round the bole of which he 

 wattles a flight, circular fence of the dimen- 

 fions he wants ; and covering it roughly with 

 boughs, and fods, he fills it plentifully with 

 ftraw, or fern. 



Having made this preparation, he collects 

 his colony among the farmers, with whom 

 he commonly agrees for a {hilling a head, 

 and will get together perhaps a herd of five 

 or fix hundred hogs. Having driven them 

 to their deftined habitation, he gives them 

 a plentiful fupper of acorns, or beech-maft, 



* Pliny feems to be of a different opinion. " Glans fagea 

 fuem hilarem facit, carnem coquibilem, ac levem, et utilem 

 ftomacho. Tradit Nigidius fungofam carnem fieri efculo, ro- 

 bore, fubere." Lib. xvi. 6. 



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