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thefe ftrong expreflions, wHich are yet 

 Uronger in the original * : ^his animal is 

 fo pleafmg, that whomever fees it, either 

 trailed, or found, or ptirfued, or taken, for- 

 gets every thifig elfe that he is moft attached 

 to, 



I have been, indeed, aftonifhed in read- 

 ing the Cynegeticos of Xenophon, to find 

 the accurate knowledge that great man had 

 of the nature of the Hare, and the method 

 pf hunting her, and to obferve one of thof 

 ^neft Writers, the braveft Soldiers, the 

 ^iblejfl Politicians^, the wifefl Philofophers, 



* See the Greek motto in the title-page. Mr. Somer- 

 ville bears the fame telHmony in favor of Hare-hunting, 

 \vhen he particularly applies the following lines to the en- 

 thufiafm of that fport : 



" Where are their forrows, difappointments, wrongs, 

 *' Vexations, ficknefs, cares? All, all are gone, 

 " And with the panting winds lag far behind." 



and 



