IntroduBioHi t-f 



his Preface to the Chace, that the Antients 



had no notion of purfuing wild beajis by the 



fcent only. 1 readily agree with him, that 



they had no idea of a regular and well-di' 



Jciplined pack of Hounds-, but though, OS 



* he and his learned Friend remark, Oppian 



defcribes a particular fort of Dog> which he 



calls I^vevrn^s^t as finding the Game onlyi 



and following the fcent no farther than the 



Hare's feat ; and fays, that after he has 



ilarted her, fhe is purfued by the light; 



yet this extrad: from Xenophon will fhew, 



that, much earlier than the time of Oppian, 



they not only -f- trailed to the Hare by the 



fcent, but abfolutely depended on that 



* See the Preface to Somervilk's Chace, at the end of 

 thefe Effays. 



i Xenoplion particularly dlftinguifhes the trail of the 

 Hare from the fcent fhe leave* whsn running ; the firft he 

 calls sCtcix, the laft ^.'o^atiat. 



alone 



