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243. ALPINE. 
ALPINE ARE. Coen 
fupply a fufficient number, vaft quantities are an- 
nually imported from Ruffia and Siberia. 
The hare was reckoned a great delicacy among — 
the Remans*; the Britains, on the contrary, thought 
it impious even to tafte it+; yet this animal was 
cultivated by them; either for the pleafure of the 
chace; or for the purpofes of fuperftition, as we are 
informed that Boadicia, immediately before her laft 
conflict with the Romans, let loofe a-hare fhe had 
concealed in her bofom, which taking what was 
deemed a fortunate courfe, animated her foldiers by 
the omen of an eafy victory over a timid enemy f. 
Lepus hieme albus Forfer hif. nat. Alpine Hare. Syz. quad. 
Volgez. Ph. Tr. LVII. 343. No. 184. 
HE Alpine hare inhabits the fummits of the 
highland mountains, never defcends into the 
vales, or mixes with the common ipecies which is 
frequent in the bottoms: it lives among the rocks 
* Inter aves turdus, fi quid me judice verum: 
Inter quadrupedes gloria prima Lepus. Martal. 13. gz. 
+ Leporem et gallinam et anferem guftare fas non putant: hec 
tamen clunt, animé voluptatifque caufa. Czxfar. Com. lib. v. 
} Tata simeca Acywv atv ex Te nonme, &c. Aiphilini Epitome 
Dionif. 173. 
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