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7^^ Ancient Method ^Coursing. 

 from Arrian. 



' I ^ H E advantages that arife to mankind 

 from Hunting, and how dear to the 

 Gods, and honourable throughout Greece^ 

 thofe were efleemed who were inftrudted in 

 this Art by Chiron, has been related by Xe- 

 nophon, thefon of Gryllus. He has alfo 

 declared how much this Art conduces to 

 military knowledge^ and what time of 

 life, conflitution, and underftanding, are 

 moft proper for entering on it. He has 

 written alfo concerning Hares, their manner 

 of feeding, and feating themfelves, and how 

 they are to be looked after. He has, be- 

 lides, written about dogs, defcribing which 

 were good for inveftigating the fcent, and 

 which were bad, and how they were to be 

 diftinguifhed both by their fhape and their 

 adions. What he has omitted does not 



appear 



