HUNTING DIRECTORY. 249 



Motion the principal Cause of Scent. 



pression, if I compai*e old Jowler, in this case, to a ma- 

 thematician, who is so intent on the long perplexing- 

 ambages of the problem before him, that he hears not 

 the clock or bell that summons him to a new employment. 



** The alterations in a yielding hare are less frequently 

 the occasion of faults, because they are more gradual ; 

 and, like the same rope, insensibly tapering and growing 

 smaller : but that alterations there are, every dog boy 

 knows by the old hounds, which still pursue with greater 

 eagerness, as she is nearer her end. 



" I take motion to be the chief cause of shedding or 

 discharging these scenting particles ; because she is very 

 seldom perceived whilst quiet in her form, though the 

 dogs are ever so near, though they leap over her, or (as 

 I have often seen) even tread upon her. Indeed it some- 

 times happens that she is, as we say, winded where she 

 sits. But this may be the effect of that train of scent 

 she left behind her in going to her chair ; or more pro- 

 bably the consequence of her own curiosity, in moving 

 and rising up, as I have also seeUj to peep after and 

 watch the proceedings of her adversaries. However, 

 we must grant, that these particles of scent, though the 

 effect of motion, are not more gross and copious in pro- 

 portion to the increasing swiftness of the animal; no 

 more than in a watering pot, which the swifter it passes, 

 the less of the falling water it bestows on the subjacent 

 plants. 



"It is very plain, the slower the hare moves, the 

 stronger and grosser, ccetarisjiarihusy are those particles 

 she leaves behind her ; which I take to be one reason 



