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prizingly difappolnted on fuch occafions. 

 You have many times been able to hunt the 

 fame walk in one part of the fields and not 

 in another ; you have hunted the fame walk 

 at ten or eleven, which gave the leafl fcent 

 2t {even in the morning ; and, which is moft 

 provoking and perplexing of all, you have 

 often been able to hunt it only at the wrong 

 end, or backwards : after many hours won- 

 der and expectation, cherifliing your Dogs, 

 and curfing your fortune, you are in truth 

 never fo far from your Game as when your 

 hunt is warmeft. All thefe accidents are 

 only the effed: of the hoar-froft, or very 

 grofs dew, (for they never happen other^ 

 wife,) and from thence mufl the miracle be 

 accounted for *. 



I have already proved that a thaw tends 

 to corrupt the particles, and have as good 



* " In the winter there is no fcent early in the morning- 

 »* when there is either an hoar-frofl or a hard froft ; the hoar- 

 '* froil, by its force, contracts and contains all the wariii, 

 ■*« particles in itfelf, and the harder froft congeals them. 

 ^f In thefe cafes, the Dogs with the moft tender nofes cannot 

 ** touch before the fun difpels them, and the day is ad- 

 "" vanced ; then the Dogs can fmell, and the trail yields a 

 f^ fcent as it evaporate? ." Xenqphon* 



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