fro?7t Xenophon, 27 



way they came, leaping all the way, and 

 keeping in the fame track. 



* Thofe that are found in open places 

 run the longeft on account of their being 

 more ufed to the light ; thofe in woody 

 places fliortefl, being hindered by the 

 darknefs. 



There are two kinds of them, one large, 

 mottled with black, and with a great deal 

 of white on the forehead ; the other lefs, 

 of a yellowiih color, and having little 

 white. 



The tail of one is variegated on every 

 fide, that of the other is -f- more confpicuous 

 from being whiter. The eyes of one fort 

 are yellowifli, of the other greyifh, and 

 the black at the tip of the ears is large in 

 the one and fmall in the other. 



The fmaller fort are chiefly found in 

 iflai:wis, as well thofe inhabited as uninha- 

 bited, where Hares are in greater plenty 



* The truth of this fa£t Is known to every Sportfman, but 

 it certainly does not arife from the caufe affigned by Xe- 

 nophon . 



f Tlci^a.a-Yi^ov. I can find no fuch word in any Lexicon. 

 Leunclave renders it, " Albedine infignis longiore fpatio ;" 

 another commentator, "terfa:" perhaps we fhould read 



than 



