THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. II7 



(the perfon already mentioned in this letter, an 

 •excellent tportfman, to whom I have many ob- 

 ligations) will anlwer the purpole beft, and on 

 their change of diet, from milk to meat, may be 

 fometimes neceflary : 



Three quarters of cin ounce of quickfilver, 

 Half a pint of fpirits of tux-pentiae, 

 Four ounces of hog's lard, 

 One pound of folt foap, 



Three ounces of common turpentine, in which the 

 quickfilver mud be killed. 



Inflin6l direcSls dogs, when the llomach is out 

 of order, to be their own phylieian ; and it is 

 from their example that we owe cur knowledge 

 how to relieve it. It may appear foreign to our 

 prefent purpofe; yet as it is much (if true) to 

 the honour of animals in general, I mull beg 

 leave to add, what a French author tells us:— 

 that alfo by the hippopotamus, we are inftru6led 

 how to bleed, and by the crane, how to give a 

 clyfler. I have already declared my difapproba- 

 tion of bleeding hounds, unlefs they abfolutely 

 want it : when they refufe their food, from hav- 

 ing been over worked ; or when they have taken 

 a chill, to which they are very fubje^l, then the 

 lofs of a little blood may be of ule to recover 

 them. Sick hounds will recover Iboner, if fuf- 

 fered to run about the houfe, than if they be con- 

 fined in the kennel. 



I 3 Mad- 



