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CYNEGETICA;

OR,

ESSAYS ONSPORTING:

CONSISTING OF

OBSERVATIONS

ON

HARE HUNTING:

CONTAINING,

An Account of the Hare Hunting; and Courſing of the Ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian:—A Philoſophical Enquiry into the Nature and Properties of the Scent:—Remarks on the different Kinds of Hounds, with the Manner of training them:—Directions for the Choice of a Hunter:—The Qualifications requiſite for a Huntſman:—And other general Rules to be obſerved in every Contingency incident to the Chace.

Together with

An Account of the Vizier's Manner of Hunting in the Mogul Empire.

By WILLIAM BLANE, Eſq.

To which is added,

THE CHACE: A POEM.

By WILLIAM SOMERVILE, Eſq.

A new Edition, embelliſhed with an elegant Frontiſpiece and a Vignette.

Οὑτω δὲ ἐπιχαρι ἐϛι το θηριόν, ὥϛε οὐδεὶς ὀϛις οὐκ ἂν ἰδών ἰχνευόμενον, εὑρισκόμενον, μεταθεόμενον, ἁλισκόμενον, ἐπιλάθοιτ᾽ ἂν εἴτȣ ἐρωη.

Xenoph. Cyneg.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind.
So flew'd, ſo ſanded, and their heads are hung
With ears that ſweep away the morning dew;
Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd, like Theſſalian bulls;
Slow in purſuit, but match'd in mouth like bells.
Each under each. A cry more tuneable
Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn.
Shakespeare's Midſumrmer Night's Dream.