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ESSAYS ON SPORTING: 



CONSISTING OF 



OBSERVATIONS 



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HARE HUNTING: 



CONTAINING, 



An Account of the Hare Hunting; and Courfing of the Aictents, from 

 Xenophon and Arrian : — A Philofophical Enquiry into the Nature and 

 Properties of ihc Scent : — Remarks on the different Kinds of Huunds, 

 with the Manner of training them : — Dirfftioos for the Choice of a 

 Hunter: — The Qualifications requifite for aHunifman : — And other ge- 

 neral Rules to be obferved in every Contingency incident to the Chace. 



Together with 



An Account of the Vizier^s Manner of Hunting 

 in the Mogul Empire. 



By WILLIAM B L A N E, Efq. 

 To which is added, 



THE CHACE: A POEM. 



By WILLIAM SOMERVILE, Efq. 



A new Edition, embelliflied with ^n elegant Frontifpiece 

 and a Vignette. 



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Xenoph. Cyneg. 



My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind. 



So flew'd, {o funded, and their heads are hung 



Wiih ears that fiveep away the morning dew ; 



Crook-knce'd, and dew-lap'd, like Theflalian bulls; 



Slow in purfuit, but match'd in mouth like bells. 



Each under each. A cry more tuneable 



Was never halloo'd to, nor cheerM with horn. 



Shakespeare's Midfumroer Night's Dream. 



