32,8 AN ACCOUNT OF DOG KENNELS. 



making his own obfervations, he moft happily 

 and engagingly fubmits the final arrangements 

 to thofe whofe official province it is to fuperin- 

 tend the execution. 



Ti.e hounds confift, in fa6l, of two packs, 

 which pafs under the denomination of the " old'* 

 ard the " young hounds," and are alternately 

 brought into ufe in the following way: the great 

 body of old and flaunch liounds are always fe- 

 lecTted for fuch deer as are known to be good 

 runners, and conflantly produced in the field 

 when his Majefty meets: to thefe are frequently 

 added three or four couple of young hounds, till 

 the whole have been entered in rotation, and the 

 tv70 packs are, by fuch gradational introduction, 

 enabled to conftitutc a kind of confblidation in 

 rcfpecl to abilities, for whatever exigences may 

 enfue or circumflances require. 



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