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Rh is no ſmall accidental difference in the very particles of ſcent; I mean that they are ſtonger, ſweeter, or more diſtinguiſhable at one time than at another, and that this difference is found not only in divers, but often in the ſame individual creature, according to the changes of the air, or the ſoil, as well as of her own motions or conditions. That there is a different ſcent in other animals of the ſame ſpecies, is evident from the draught Hounds, which were formerly made uſe of for tracing and purſuing Thieves and Deer-ſtealers, or rather from any common Cur or Spaniel, which will hunt out their maſter, or their maſter's horſe diſtinctly from all others: and that it is the ſame with the Hare is no leſs viſible from the old Beagles, which will not readily change for a freſh one, unleſs ſhe ſtarts in view, or unleſs a fault happens that puts them in confuſon, and inclines them in deſpair to take up with the next they can come by.

That the ſame Hare will, at divers times, emit finer or groſſer particles, is equally manifeſt to every one who ſhall obſerve the Rh