Mare Hunting. 8 1 



fame path flie came \ for it muft require 

 the utmoft fkill to diftinguifli well the new 

 fcent from the old, when both are mixed, 

 obfcured^ and confounded with the ftrong 

 perfpirations of fo many Dogs and Horfes, 

 Yet this we have often feen performed by 

 ready and expert Hunters. However, if 

 the Dogs be not mailers of their bufmefs, or 

 if the air be not in due balance, the diffi- 

 culty will be the greater. 



The Reader will obferve, that the remarks 

 I have made are generally on the Hare, 

 which, I have faid, is of all others mofl 

 worthy of our fpeculation and enquiry. 

 By analogy the hunting the Deer or Fox 

 will be eafily underftood \ for, though the 

 fcent of thefe is generally higher, more ob- 

 vious to the nofes of the Dogs, and in greater 

 plenty whilfl the particles laft, yet, for that 

 very reafon (floating in the air), they are 

 fooner diffipated, and require a more vi- 

 gorous, though lefs fubtile, Huntfman, as 

 well as fwifter Beao^les, 



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