2 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



fling fubjec'^, if you think it a neccltliry one:} 

 and I wifh my own experience of the diverlioii 

 may enable me to anfwer the many queftions 

 which you are pleafed to propofe concerning it. • 



Knowing your partiality to rhyme, I could 

 wifh to fend you my thoughts in verfe; but as 

 this would take up more time, without anfwer- 

 ing your purpofe better, I mull: beg you to ac- 

 cept them in humble profe, which, in my opi- 

 nion, is better fuited to the fubjed. Dida6lic cf- 

 fays fhould be as little clogged as poflible; they 

 fliould proceed regularly and clearly ; fliould be 

 ealily written, and as eafily underflood, having 

 lefs to do with words than things. The game of 

 cramho is out of falhion, to the no fmall preju- 

 dice of the rhyming tribe; and before I could 

 find a rhyme io porringer, I fhould hope to finifli 

 a great part of thefe letters : I fhall therefore, 

 without farther delay, proceed upon them: this, 

 however, I mutt defire to be firft underflood be- 

 tween us; that when, to lave trouble to us both, 

 I fay a thing is, without tacking a falvo to the 

 tail of it, fuch as, in my opnion — to the hejl of 7ny 

 judgment, he. &c. — you ihall not call my humi- 

 lity in queftion, as the afTertion is not meant to 

 be mathematically certain. When I have any 

 better authority than my own, fuch as Somervile, 

 for inflance, (who, by the bye, is the only one 

 that has written intelligibly on this fubje6t) I 



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