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ther feafon, when the air is light, or grow- 

 ing lighter, the fcent mufl proportionably 

 be falling or finking, and then every Dog, 

 though, in the height of his courage, he 

 pufhes forwards, yet is forced to come 

 back again and again, and cannot make any 

 fure advances, but with his nofe in the 

 ground. When circumftances are thus, (if 

 there be not a ftorm of thunder impending 

 to corrupt the fcent, as I faid before,) you 

 may expe6l the moil curious and lafling 

 fport ; Pufs having then a fair opportunity 

 to fliew her wiles, and every old or flow 

 Dog to come in for his fliare, to difplay his 

 experience, the fubtilty of his judgment, 

 and the tendernefs of his noflrils. The moft 

 terrible day for the Hare is, when the air is 

 in its mean gravity, or equilibrio, tolerable 

 moift, but inclining to grow drier, and fan- 

 ned with the gentle breezes of the zephyrs : 

 the moderate gravity buoys up the fcent as 

 high as the Dog's breafl ; the veficles of 

 moifture ferve as fo many canals, or ve- 

 hicles, to carry the effluvia into their nofes ; 

 and the gentle fannings help, in fuch wife, 

 to fpread and difTipate them, that every 

 F 3 Hound, 



