Hare Hunting. jj 



is no fmall accidental difference in the very 

 particles of fcent ; I mean that they are 

 Wronger, fweeter, or more diftinguifhable 

 at one time than at another^ and that this 

 difference is found not only in divers, but 

 often in the fame individual creature, ac- 

 cording to the changes of the air, or the 

 ibil, as vv^ell as of her own motions or con- 

 ditions. That there is a different fcent in 

 other animals of the fame fpecies, is evi- 

 dent from the draught Hounds, which were 

 formerly made ufe of for tracing and pur- 

 fuing Thieves and Deer- Healers, or rather 

 from any common Cur or Spaniel, which 

 will hunt out their mafter, or their mailer's 

 horfe diflind:ly from all others : and that it 

 is the fame with the Hare is no lefs vifible 

 from the old Beagles, which will not rea- 

 dily change for a freih one, unlefs fhe (tarts 

 in view, or unlefs a fault happens that puts 

 them in confuiion, and inclines them \n 

 defpair to take up with the next they can 

 come by. 



That the fame Hare will, at divers times, 

 emit iiner or groHer particles, is equally 

 manifeft to cverv one who fhall obferve the 



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