and ^alities of other Creatures. 155 



There is alfo a well experienced truth, 

 that fome places are remarkable for being 

 feldom without Hares, and others (though 

 as likely in human conjecture as poffible) 

 feldom with any. Whether it is any par- 

 ticular excellence in the feed, lituation for 

 forming advantageoufly for warmth, hear- 

 ing, or feeing, that induces them to prefer 

 certain parts to others, or that, on the death 

 of a Buck or Doe, another fucceeds, and 

 they pofTefs their ufual circle, I do not 

 pretend to reconcile. So much for Hares, 

 Now for the Dogs and Huntfman, both of 

 whom it will be necelTary to fuppofe in the 

 field, whether kennel or pack does not fig- 

 nify -f : it mufl be underftood in the lan- 

 guage of Hunters, it is a kennel of Hounds, 

 but twenty or a hundred couple of Beagles 

 make but a pack. 



Hares conceiving again before they bring forth their firft 

 young. Sir Thomas Brown, in his Treatife on Vulgar Er- 

 rors, (a Work in which he would be naturally cautious of 

 introducing the marvellous,) aflerts this circumftance from 

 his own obfervation. 



f This is a diflindlion entirely obfolete. 



LETTER 



