20 MANTTAl, FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 



brightest educational gems in a Persian prince's diadem. 

 We learn from Xenophon, soldier, hunter, philosopher, 

 historian, that wherever, on the line of the long march of 

 the Ten-thousand from Sardis up to Babylon, there was 

 found a royal residence, it was accompanied by a great 

 pleasure park and preserve of wild animals, some of them 

 the savage carnivora, which Cyrus, he says, hunted on 

 horseback, when he desired to take exercise. It is remark- 

 able, moreover, that the name TrapaSeicros by no means 

 a word of common occurrence in the Greek language, nor, 

 so far as I remember, ever used of any enclosed ground 

 within the confines of Greece proper, which is invariably 

 applied to these pleasure parks maintained for hunting 

 purposes is identical with the word Paradise, otherwise 

 rendered Garden of Eden, in its primary terrestrial signi- 

 fication, which we have transferred to the seat of celestial 

 beatitude and repose hereafter. 



The Greek and Roman writers, both in verse and 

 prose, abound with allusions to this heroic pursuit and 

 passion, which is attributed especially to their most favor- 

 ite and famous demigods. The legends of the Nemean 

 lion, the Caledonian boar, the tragical hunting of Acteon, 

 the tales of Cephalus and Procris, of the wild Thessalian 

 Centaurs, who nursed the martial vigor of the young 

 Achilles on the marrow of hunted bears and lions; of 

 Phoedra, Atalanta, Adonis the beloved of Venus, and above 

 all Diana, the huntress queen, with her attendant train of 

 nymphs, are familiar to all, and point evidently to a period, 

 when, in the intervals of war and warlike forays, the chase 

 was the daily delight and occupation of the patriarchal 



