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alarm, and being exceedingly flight, were im« 

 mediately counteradled by the fame means, with 

 a very flender portion of perfeverance. 



Perfedly fuccefsful in thefe attempts, and 

 gratified in the efFed: of experiments planned 

 only upon my own private opinion and obfer- 

 vations, with an intent to enfure (if poflible) 

 the certainty of caufe and probability of cure, 

 it will not be thought extraordinary, I wifhed 

 for, and even courted, opportunities to juftify, 

 or render nugatory, the difcovery I was fo 

 anxious- to afcertain. ; 



I foon found it impoflible to fucce^d in my 

 invefhigation and purfuitwith fubjedls the pro- 

 perty of others ; there I could only advife or 

 recommend (without the power of abfolute 

 dictation), w^here, probably, various circum- 

 fiances — the pride, indolence, or peculiarities, 

 of the parties might prevent the performance 

 of either one or the other. 



During my incYeafed defire to proceed in 

 fuch fpeculative inquiry, a brace of pointer 

 puppies were brought me by a gentleman from 

 Banbury in Oxfordlhire, of fo good a breed, 



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