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iZ Introdud^ion. 



and the mofl: virtuous Citizens of antiquity, 

 fo intimately acquainted with all the niceties 

 and difficulties of purfuing this little animal, 

 -and defcribing them with a precifion that 

 would wiot difgrace the oldefl Sportfman of 

 Great Britain, who never had any other 

 idea interfere to perplex his refearches. 



As I think no tranflation of Xenophon's 

 Treatife on Hunting has appeared in our 

 language, the Reader may not be difpleafed 

 to fee that part of it which bears an imme- 

 diate relation to the fubjed of thefe Effays. 

 I fhall, therefore, lay before him a De- 

 fcription of the Greek manner of Hare- 

 hunting * extracted from that Writer, 

 which I am the more induced to, as it will 

 confute the afTertion of Mr. Somerville, in 



* Some quotations from Xenophon's Cynegeticos, the 

 Reader will find in the notes on the fubfequent Effays. 



