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voir, White-horse, Evesham, or any other 

 where there are no coverts, so that a hare 

 may stand forth and endure a course of two 

 or three miles. High downs, or heaths, are 

 met with about Maryborough, Salisbury, Ci- 

 rencester, Lincoln, and Great Driffield in 

 Yorkshire; though these places are very 

 commodious for the breeding and training 

 up of greyhounds, yet, in my opinion, the 

 middle, or most part arable grounds, are the 

 best; and still those gentlemen who dwell on 

 downs or plain grounds, to keep up the repu- 

 tation of their own dogs, affirm that they are 

 more nimble and cunning in turning than the 

 vale dogs are. 



It is a received opinion that the greyhound 

 bitch will beat the dog, by reason she excels 

 him in nimbleness; but if you consider that 

 the dog is longer and stronger, you must look 

 upon such opinion as no more than a vulgar 

 error. As to the breeding of your greyhound, 

 the best dog upon an indifterent bitch will 

 not produce so good a whelp as an indiffe* 



