OF SHOOTING; 



With Remarks and Observations necessary thereto ; 

 also Instructions for Juvenile Sportsmen to attain 

 the Art of Shooting Flying, fyc. 



SHOOTING is an amusement of that nature, which af- 

 fords both pleasure and exercise : a pleasure too of 

 the most innocent kind, whilst the exercise which at- 

 tends it administers, in a superior degree, to the 

 health and vigour of th* ho:ly, by expelling those 

 gross humours which lurk within the human frame, 

 and that frequently baffle the skill of the physician. 

 A recreation attended with such important advan- 

 tages must surely be advisable; I shall, therefore, 

 without further exordium, proceed to the point in 

 question. 



As scent is the leading, and in fact the principal, 

 thing on which shooting depends, it will be neces- 

 sary, in the first place, to say a few words on the na- 

 ture of it. 



Scent is an effluvium continually arising from the 

 corpuscles that issue out of bodies ; and, being im- 

 pregnated with the peculiar state and quality of the 

 blood and juices of that particular body from which 

 it flows, occasions the vast 'variety of smells or 

 scents cognisable by the olfactory nerves or organs of 



