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added little to our knowledge in any department of coursing, 

 as the reader of the Nicomedian's Manual will readily acknow- 

 ledge. His remarks on the physical indications of excellence 

 in greyhounds, and of speed and good blood, — derived from 

 external shape and character generally, — on the unimportance 

 of colour, — on the indications afforded by temper, tractability 

 in the field, mode of feeding. Sec. are perfect as far as they go. 

 Nor can we improve on his kennel management, in feeding, Arriani de \'e- 



nalione 



bedding, (evv^ ixaXQctxr] xoti ocKssivyj), rubbing down, (rgl^ig too c. ix. 

 a-do[j,aTo; iravTos,) exercising, alternated with confinement, Slc. <=• ^^ 

 &c. As to slipping-law, and the number of hounds to be c. xv. 

 slipped at once, his injunctions |x»)Te eyyuQsv IttjAusiv tw Xuycio, 

 fUYiTs TrXsioug SuoTv, are strictly complied with at present by all 

 fair sportsmen. 



The Celts, it appears, had four different ways of coursing, 

 all of which are practised by modern amateurs, according to 

 their several tastes, and the nature of the countries in which 

 they follow their sport. 



The superior class of Celtic gentlemen, o<toi ^h TrXovToZa-iv av- c. xix. 

 Twv x«t rpo^coo-jv, employed persons to look out for hares in their 

 forms, early in the morning, and to inform them by a messen- 

 ger what success they had met with, before they left home 

 themselves. 



A second class, probably less opulent, and not able to afford c. xx. 

 the expense of hare-finders, mustered all their brother-ama- 

 teurs, and beat the ground in regular array, abreast of each 

 other. Both these parties were mounted on horseback ; but a 

 third class sallied forth on foot, and these, Arrian says, were 

 really workmen at the sport, auTovpyo) xuvyjyeo-jwv : if any person 



