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with the muzzle now and then impofed on dogs in France by the police 

 authorities, when they fuppofe the temperature fufceptible of engendering 

 hydrophobia a miftake which often caufes a hetacomb of innocent 

 canine victims. 



Joft Ammon, in his very curious book on hunting, entitled, Kunftliche 

 wohlgerijfene neu Figuren von allerlai Jagt Kunft. F.furt am Mayn (1592, 

 4to.), has drawn almoft all the known varieties of fporting dogs (Plates 

 35-42). The dog (Plate 43, No i) with his tongue after the heraldic 

 fafhion, illuftrates the title of Sir Thomas Cockaine's Short Treatife of 

 Hunting (London, 1591, in 4to.), which may be confidered as the 

 ftarting-point of fox-hunting as fince practifed in England. The three 

 drawings Plate 43, No. i, and Plate 44, are taken from a very curious 

 little book of drawings printed at Lyons by Jean de Tournes, in 1556 

 (8vo.), without any text, but which had been ufed formerly by him 

 in his printed books. 



In Plates 45 and 46 are the dogs drawn by Boiflard, and fo beau- 

 tifully engraved by Theodor de Bry. The following Plate (47) has 

 drawings by Beckerweld (1626). Plate 48 is a fac-fimile of the title-page 

 of The Dtfcovery of Witches , in Anfwer to Jeveral Queries lately delivered 

 to the Judges of dffize for the county of Norfolk (London, 1647, 4 to -)> by 

 Matthew Hopkins, to whom Butler alludes in his Hudibras, p. ii. canto 3. 

 This Hopkins' fecret to difcover a witch was to throw the fufpected old 

 woman in the water. If me could fwim and fave herfelf of a watery 

 grave, me was fure to be burnt as a witch ; if drowned, me was con- 

 fidered innocent of the heinous crime of witchcraft. Some relations of 

 the numerous viclims of Hopkins imagined that Hopkins could not 

 difcover the witches unlefs himfelf a wizard. In confequence, they 



