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Hound, the 28th ult. was appointed for the pur- 

 pose of exercising it. The person to be hunted 

 started at ten o'clock in the forenoon, in the pre- 

 sence of a great concourse of people ; and at ele- 

 ven the Hound was let loose; when, after a chase 

 of an hour and a half, notwithstanding a very in- 

 different scent, the Hound discovered him, secreted 

 in a tree, at the distance of fifteen miles." 



Bloodhounds have, of late years, been employed 

 in the island of Jamaica, for the purpose of dis- 

 covering the ambuscades of the Maroons, in their 

 projected descent upon the whites. 



The Dogs are taught to act more by exciting 

 terror than by attack; and criminals are taken by 

 them, and brought to justice, without the slightest 

 personal injury. Instances have occurred where, 

 on resistance being made, they have lacerated or 

 killed their opponent. But these, in the present 

 age, are very few, since it is made an essential part 

 of their training to prevent them from this. It is, 

 however, but too true, that in South America, three 

 centuries ago, the Spaniards committed the most 

 horrible enormities upon the miserable Indians, by 

 means of Dogs of this description ; and the just in- 

 dignation of mankind long continued to brand the 

 Spanish nation with infamy for such atrocitieSi 



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