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cluded; and he brings this animal as an inftance; 
afferting, from his own obfervation, that after the 
firft caft there remain fucceffive conceptions, and 
other younglings very immature, and far from the 
term of their exclufion; but as the hare breeds 
very frequently in the year, there is no neceffity of 
having recourfe to this accident * to account for 
their numbers. The antients were acquainted with 
this circumftance. Horace alludes to it in the 
fecond fatire of the fourth book. : 
Facundi \eporis fapiens fectabitur armos, 
fays the bon vivant, every man of tafte will prefer 
the wing of the fruitful hare. Pliny as a philofo- 
pher is more explicit, and affigning a moral rea- 
fon for the great encreafe of this animal gives 
the following elegant account of it. Lepus omui- 
um prede nafcens, folus preter Dafypodem /uper- 
fetat, aliud educans, aliud in utero pilis veftitum, aliud 
cmplume, aliud inchoatum gerens pariter. 
Hares are very fubjeét to fleas ; Linnzus tells us, 
that the Dalecarlians make a fort of cloth of the fur, 
called filt,; which, by attraéting thofe infects, pre- 
ferves the wearer from their troublefome attacks +. 
The hair of this creature forms a great article 
in the hat manufacture; and as this country cannot 
* For a farther account of this dogtrine, we refer the cu- 
tious reader to M. de Buffon’s works, vol. vi. p. 252, 279, &c. 
+ Faun. Suec. 25. 
ATGE 
