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their forms ; their circle of exercife is more 

 confined, and Hable to difturbance, and the 

 air they breathe is lefs pure and correct, 

 whence proceeds purfinefs and fhort wind. 

 Of this fort are the Hares in the wealds, 

 many of which I have feen when paunched 

 with' ulcerated lungs and unfound. 



* There is another fort of Hares to be 

 met with (though very feldom) different 

 from either of the kinds mentioned, that 

 wander about like vagrants, living at large, 

 and with indifference, in all places, feating 

 vaftly uncertain, fometimes in the enclo- 

 fure, hedge- row, brake, or flrong covert, 

 at other times in the open common or fields. 

 Thefe are the Hares for diverfion, and moft 

 difiicult to judge off, and dangerous to pur- 

 fue. They ramble through the barn-yard 



* " Thofe Hares that wander in all places are moll puz- 

 *' zling in the chace, for they know the neareft ways ; they 

 *' generally run up hill or on level ground ; if they find any 

 *' uneven ground they run over it in an irregular manner, 

 ** but very feldom run down hill." — Xenophon. 



Mr. Pennant, in his Britiih Zoology, remarks, that a Hare^ 

 when ftarted, always makes to a rifmg ground, which he at.- 

 tributes to the length of her hind legs, 



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