6o Coming, 



beat about, being drawn up in a regular 

 rank ; and, having proceeded in a dired: 

 line to a certain point, wheeling round, 

 they turn about together towards the place 

 from whence they fet out by the fame way 

 they came, leaving, as far as pofTible, no 

 likely place unexplored. If many dogs are 

 taken out, they ihould not be ftationed 

 promifcuoufly j for, when the Hare is 

 ftarted, no one will refrain from (lipping 

 his own dog, each being defirous of feeing 

 his own dog run, and the Hare, confufed 

 and terrified by the noife and number of the 

 dogs, will be taken without fliewing any 

 fport, and the diverfion, which is the chief 



^I'flVTj-:, I will take the words of Blanc^rd hlmfelf, in his 

 tranflation of the Tadlica of this author, and in the fame 

 volume : '• K>Vk eil motus qui fit a viris fmgulis ; 'Eirir^otpn 

 " autem eft cum fyntagma totum condenfatum, velut unius 

 •' viri corpus, in haftam vel in clypeum inclinamus." In 

 modern military language the one is a turn, or face^ the 

 other a wheel. The reafon of the wheel is obvious, viz. 

 tliat in returning the way they came, Tra^a r» avrd., ^la tu¥ 

 ecvruv, (a fentence copied from Xenophon, fee p. 26,) they 

 might not exaftly beat the fame traft, but take frefli 

 ground. I need not add, that this is exaftly the way of 

 beating for a Hare in courfmg, both on foot and on horfe- 

 back. 



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