XX11 PREFACE. 



heads, are here added to the Treatise on 

 Breaking. The others were. On Hunt- 

 ing' in Company, and regular Brigading 

 in the Field*: General Discipline; its 

 distinguished advantages, examples of 

 perfection, and method of enforcing it 

 in refractory cases. To these were to 

 have been added, A Comparative View 

 of the respective merits of the English 

 Spaniel, commonly known by the name of 

 the Setter, and the Pointer; with some 

 subsidiary matter, if the size of the vo- 

 lume were not likely to be too much 

 increased, upon Breeding, Management 

 in Kennel, &c. 



That the first of these, m. " Hunting in 

 Company " did not get entirely finished by 

 the author, is perhaps to be regretted by 

 the true sportsman ; inasmuch as it appears 

 to have been his purpose to treat this 



* The author had made considerable progress in this 

 chapter, but was prevented from completing it: as such, 

 therefore, it will be received. Being, however, brought up 

 to a certain point, it will give a pretty correct notion of his 

 views ; and as otherwise, perhaps, not without its value to 

 the reader, it is here given in the state in which it was found. 



