22 Hare Hunting, 



fo ftronger in woody places than in open 

 ones, for there, fometimes running, and 

 ibmetimes fitting, flie is touched by many 

 things. 



She makes her feat under, upon, or with- 

 in, every thing the earth bears on its fur- 

 face, near or diliant, fometimes continuing 

 a lon?y time, fometimes a ihort time, fome- 

 times between both ; fometimes throwing 

 hcrfelf as far as flie is able into the fea, or 

 other water, if any thing ftands above it, 

 or grows out of it. 



* The trail of the Hare is the path iTie 

 takes going to her feat, which,' in cold 

 weather, will generally be in flieltered places, 

 and, in hot, in fliady places. But her 



* It is impoffible to tranflate this pafTage more literally, 

 as Xenophoii explains one Greek word by another. He 

 had before ufed the word ivvaXoi; to exprefs a Hare going to 

 her feat, in contradllHnftion to her running when purfued ; 

 and which he now explains h ^iv Qv ivvaioq h voiovj/.ivo(; evvw. 

 The Latin tranflator, by not attending ^o this, has made 

 jionfenfe of this paffage. " Lepus cubans eft qui cubile fibi 

 *' ftruit." ♦• A Hare is faid to be lying when fhe is making 

 '' her form." 



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