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file continues even while they are trailing 

 to her, unlefs fhe has been much alarmed 

 in the night, in which cafe fhe will move. 



She is fo prolific, that at * the fame time 

 fhe will have young ones, be bringing forth 

 others, and have newly conceived. The 

 fcent of young Hares is ilronger than that 

 of full grown ones ; for, their limbs being 

 tender, their whole body drags on the 

 ground, 



Thofe which are too young the •f' fair 

 Sportfman will fpare. Thofe of a year old 

 will run the firfl: ring very fwiftly, but not 

 at all afterwards, being very acflive, but 

 weak. 



To take the trail of the Hare the dogs 

 fhquld be drawn J from the cultivated fields 

 upwards; (i, e, towards the mountains 3) 

 but thofe who do not come into cultivated 

 places niuft be tried for in meadows, marflies, 



* Oppian apd Pliny make the fame remark. Sir Tho- 

 mas Brown, in his Treatife on Vulgar Errors, afferts it from 

 his own obfervation. Fol. Ed. p. 1 18. 



i" Ot (pi'hax.vvYiyira.i a(pnx<r* t>j &iu- 



X As we now try to hit the Hare from where fhe has been 

 at fsed into heaths, covers, &c, 



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