THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 3! 



Or far extended plain ; in every part 

 So well proportion'd, that the nicer fkill 

 Of Phidias himfelf can't blame thy choice. 

 Of fuch compofe thy pack. 



The colour, I think of little moment ; and am 

 of opinion, with our friend Footc, refpeding his 

 negro friend, that a good dog, like a good can- 

 didate, cannot be of a bad colour. 



Men are too apt to be prejudiced by the fort of 

 hound they themfelves have been moil accuftjraed 

 to. Tliofe who have been uled to the fharp- 

 nofed fox-hound, will hardly allow a large-headed 

 hound to he a fox-hound ; yet they both equally 

 are. — Speed and beauty are the chief excellencies 

 of the one ; whilft floutncfs and tcndernefs of 

 nofc in hunting,* are chara6leriftic of the other. 

 I could tell you, that I have feen very good fport 

 with very unhandlbme packs, confifling of hounds 

 of various lizes, differing from one another as 

 much in fhape and look, as in their colour ; nor 

 could there be traced the Icaft lign of confan- 

 guinity amongfr them : conlidered feparately, the 

 hounds were good ; as a pack of hounds they 

 were not to be commended ; nor would you be 

 fatisfied with any thing that looks fo very incom- 



* II paroit que la finelTe de I'odorat, dans les chiens, depend 

 4e la grofleur plus que de la longueur du mufcau. 



BUFFON. 



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