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LETTER III. 



Tloe Sorts and Difference o/" Hares, 

 being of no lefs Signification than 

 the preceding Letters. 



A HARE is called by Sportfmen, 

 within the firft year a Leveret, at 

 twelve months old a Hare; at two years 

 old and fo on, a great, a large, or a flam- 

 ming Hare. I never heard them diilin- 

 guifhed by other names, nor do I know 

 more proper. 



The derivation of the term is not at all 

 momentous to the Huntfman ; he is fenfi- 

 ble when he fees her every body calls fuch 

 a creature a Hare. Your Lordfliip knows 

 the ancients called this animal by various 

 appellations. 



The 



