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to stop, which is oftentimes fatal. Views are at all titnei 

 to be avoided, but particularly with trap -hares j for, as 

 these know not where they are, the hounds have too great 

 an advantage over them. It is best to turn them down 

 the wind : they hear the hounds better, and seldom turn 

 again. Hounds for this business should not be too fleet. 

 I'hese hares run straight, and make no doubles : they 

 leave a strong scent, and have other objedlions, in com- 

 rfton with animals turned out before hounds: they may 

 give you a gallop ; they will, however, shew but little 

 hunting. The hounds are to be hunted like a pack of 

 fox-hounds, as a trap-hare runs very much in the same 

 manner, and will even top the hedges. What I should 

 prefer to catching the hares in traps, would be a warren 

 in the midst of an open country, which might be stopped 

 close on hunting-days. This would supply the whole 

 country with hares, which, after one turn round the warren, 

 would most probably run straight at end. The number 

 of hares that a warren will supply, is hardly to be con- 

 ceived : 1 seldom turned out less, in one year, than thirty 

 brace of trap-hares, besides many others killed in the 

 environs, of which no account was taken. My warren 

 is a wood of near thirty acres : one of half the size would 



