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no value, becaufe in fome years it was 

 meafled : wolves, foxes, and other nox- 

 ious animals, had no value, becaufe every 

 perfon was allowed to kill them ; and 

 there was none fet upon a hare for this 

 very fmgular reafon, becaufe it was be- 

 lieved every other month to change it's 

 fex.* 



The Welfh had anciently twenty- 

 four games, mod of which were well cal- 

 culated to render them that hardy and 

 warlike nation they have proved them- 

 felves. Of thefe, the firft were the fix 

 feats of activity: running; leaping; 

 fwimming; wreftling; riding, or feats in 

 chariots of war ; and difplay of ftrength, 

 in fupporting and hurling weights, fuch 

 as pitching the bar, or a large itone, and 

 throwing the fledge, or quoits. 



Then the four exercifes of weapons : 

 archery, throwing the javelin, and to 

 hurl with a fling; fencing with a fword 



* Pennant, II. 127, 128, f*p. and 



