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making forth, arc intercepted in the Nets. Their 

 fmall and great Beafts arc entangled together, after the 

 fame manner as when amongft us we draw a Net 

 oyer a Pond, and after beating it all over with Poles, 

 we bring out not onely Pik^ and Carp^ but lelTer Fryi 

 To they inclofe at once Peer, Boar, Roe-bHck, and Hare : 

 For fo they order their Nets, that the fpace of thofe 

 MeQies which are twifted with greater Cords, for the 

 entangling of greater Beafts, that fpace, I Tay, is made 

 up with (mailer Whip-cord, for the catching fmaller 

 Prey. 



He hath a great race of Engli(h Maftiffs, which in 

 that Country retain their generofity, and are brought 

 up to play upon greater bcalls. It is not counted a- 

 mong them difagrecable to the Laws of the Chale, to 

 ufe Guns. I (hall now proceed to the manner of 

 Englifh- Hunting botli antient and modern, according 

 to the beft information I could gather either out of 

 Books , experienced Huntfmen , and my own pra- 

 dJice. 



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Of WdLXt-Hunt'iMg, 



A Hart can naturally fwim a great way v infomuch 

 that I have heard of fome fo fore hunted in 

 Forefts near the Sea, that they have plung'd into it, and 

 have been killed by Fidier - men a doien miles from 

 land. 



It is reported of them when they go fo Rut , and 

 muil for that purpofe crofs fome great River or Arm 

 of the Sea, they alTemble in great Herds, the llron- 

 geft goes in firll, and the next ot llrcngth follows hiiTi, 

 and fo one after the other, relieving themfelves 



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