the Chace, 209 



feen It treated more at large by Virgil in his 

 third Georgick, fince it is exprefsly part of 

 his fubjed:. But he has favoured us only 

 with ten verfes -, and what he fays of dogs, 

 relates wholly to greyhounds and mafliffs. 



Veloces Spartae catulos, acremque molofTum. 



Geor. lii. 



The greyhound fwift, and maftifPs furious breed. 



And he direds us to feed them with butter- 

 milki Pafce fero pingui. He has, it is 

 true, touched upon the chace in the 4th and 

 7th books of the iEneid. But it is evident^ 

 that the art of hunting is very different now 

 from what it was in his days, and very 

 much altered and improved in thefe latter 

 ages. It does not appear to me that the 

 ancients had any notion of purfuing wild 

 beafts by the fcent only, with a regular and 

 well-difciplined pack of hounds y and 

 therefore they muft have pafTed for poachers 

 amongfl: our modern fportfmen . The muf- 

 ter roll given us by Ovid, in his flory of 

 Adascn, is of all forts of dogs, and of all 

 countries. And the defcription of the an- 

 P cient 



