SCENT AND SMELL CONTRASTED. 329 



liim cannot overpower his nicer discrimination. 

 Man, then, by artificial perfumery, can obliterate 

 the worst of smells ^ so far as the hmiian vose goes ; 

 but put what you will on tlie hound, the power 

 to scent a creature of the chase which lie possesses 

 cannot be obliterated, but serves him even when 

 trotting by liis huntsman's horse, and when the 

 huntsman can scarcely dare to risk an inhalation 

 arising from the hound's lips. 



