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when trailing to find in the cold and chil- 

 ling dreary fog of a fevere winter's morning, 

 than the alternate contrafts in the chace, 

 arifing from thofe checks in ** heading, turn- 

 ing, doublings and fquatting,^^ that confti- 

 tute firft a burfl to promote perfpiration, then 

 Vi*^fault^^ to fupprefs it. 



This is fo very oppofite to the violent and 

 continued exertions of a chace with either 

 STAG or FOX, in the prefent improved 

 breed and fleetnefs of hounds ; that I only 

 mean -to convey an idea of the probable 

 hazard of having a horfe kept in too high a 

 ftile for a chace fo fubjed: to flud:uation in 

 the different degrees oi heat and cold, that a 

 horfe in perfed: condition muft have great 

 good fortune, or an excellent conftitu- 

 tion, not to feel the ill effeds of long at- 

 tendance upon HARRIERS, at leaft in thofe 

 countries where the fcarcity of game ad- 

 mits of much loft time between killing and 

 finding. For my own part, however re- 

 pugnant the opinion may prove to one 

 clafs of fportfmen, I feel myfelf juftified in 

 declaring, no confideration whatever fliould 

 influence me to dance attendance upon har- 

 riers^ 



