3© Hare Huntings 



turgid. The lower parts fmall, and firm,^ 

 The fore feet very fupple, narrow, and up- 

 right. The hind feet firm, and broad, nei- 

 ther of them Uable to injury by treading on 

 any thing however hard; the hinder legs 

 are much larger than the fore legs, and in- 

 cline a little outwards. The hair fhort 

 and light. 



It is impoffible, therefore, being fo con- 

 flruded, but that flie muft be ftrong, agile, 

 and very light. As a proof that ihe is very 

 light, v/hen flie goes along without being 

 frightened fhe always leaps, (for a hare 

 walking no one ever faw, or ever well fee,) 

 throwing the hinder feet beyond the fore 

 feety and fhe runs in that manner*. 



The 



* Here follow the words Vri'Kdi ^i t5to \» %^or, which 

 have puzzled all the commentators, who have moft of them 

 left them unexplained. Leunclave, however, propofes IrjK^v 

 3'e Tare h %gsi«, which he boldly inferts in the texts, and fays, 

 *' Senfum autem eft quantum lepus ultra pedes priores in 

 *' curfu pofteriores cbllocet in neccjjitate confpici, quum ea 

 *' premitur," But this fenfe, as he calls it, is abfolutel/ 

 nonfenfe, for Xenophon exprefsly fays fhe goes in this man- 

 ner when Ihe is not frightened, oVav uT^c(ji.a, hcctro^ivr,tui, and 

 furely the fafter fhe goes the lefs opportunity there is of ob- 

 ferving her manner of going. I would prbpofe a reading; 



not 



