NOTITIA VENATICA. 



CHAPTER I. 



Hear and attend ! while I the means reveal 

 T'enjoy these pleasures." 



Chase. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. — THE LOVE OF FOX-HUNTING ON THE BECLINE. — 

 MANNER OF HUNTING IN GERMANY. — FOXHOUNDS IN FRANCE. — HUNT 

 COMMITTEES, ANECDOTE OF MR. NICHOLL. — EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF 

 FOXES DESTROYED IN FRANCE DURING SOME SEASONS. — KING JAMES I., 



HIS LOVE OF HUNTING. DIFFERENT BREEDS OF HOUNDS. — THE BEAUFORT 



JUSTICE. — THE VINE HOUNDS. REASONS FOR HOUNDS NOT HAVING THE 



POWERS OF SCENTING. — MR. OSBALDESTOn's HOUNDS — THE DUKE OF 



Cleveland's hounds. — breeding — -spaying bitches. — shewing 



YOUNG hounds FOR A PRIZE — RIGHT OF COUNTRY. HUNT CLUBS. 



THE SINNINGTON HUNT. — THE YORK UNION HUNT CLUB. — ANECDOTE OF 

 MR. CURTIS EATING A FOX. — ANECDOTE OF MR. MUSTERS AND HIS 

 HOUNDS. — OLD FRENZY MR. BETHEL'S HOUNDS. 



Amongst the many pleasures which men are in the 

 habit of cultivating, there are none more pleasing, or 

 which more ennoble the mind than those which are 

 connected with Natural History, as they daily afford 

 us new objects for admiration ; flowers, plants, animals, 

 &c., all discover the workmanship and surprising omni- 

 potence of the great Creator of all things, and nothing 

 bespeaks the presence of Divine Providence more than 



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