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50 by running down ditches. On this account, I ſuppoſe, Xenophon dwells ſo long on the mode of driving the Hare into the nets, and in directing, if ſhe avoids them, how to follow and find her again by the ſcent, till ſhe is taken by being run down and tired. But he never fays, that, to thoſe who have good dogs, there is no occaſion either for nets, or to try for a Hare again after eſcaping: but he only teaches the mode of Hunting practiſed by the Carians and Cretans.

Thoſe Gauls, who only courſe for the ſport, and not to live by what they catch, never uſe nets. They have alſo a breed of dogs, not leſs excellent in running by the ſcent than the Carian and Cretan breed, but of a diſagreeable and ſavage form; and they give their tongues, and open on the ſcent, in the ſame manner with the Carians; but they are more vehement when they find the ſcent. They are too eager on the trail, and ſo noiſy, that I must condemn them, giving their tongues as freely on the trail as after the Hare is found; but in following and finding again after ſhe is ſtarted, they are Rh