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Rh are every Dog-boy knows by the old Hounds, which ſtill purfue with greater earneſtneſs, as ſhe is nearer her end.

I take motion to be the chief cauſe of ſhedding or diſcharging theſe ſcenting particles, becauſe ſhe is very ſeldom perceived whilſt quiet in her form, though the Dogs are never ſo near, though they leap over her, or, as I have often ſeen, even tread upon her. Indeed, it ſometimes happens that ſhe is, as we ſay, winded where ſhe ſits. But this may be the effect of that train of ſcent ſhe left behind her in going to her chair, or more probably the conſequence of her own curioſity, in moving, and riſing up, (as I have alſo ſeen,) to peep after and watch the proceedings of her adverſaries. However, we muſt grant that theſe particles of fcent, though the effect of motion, are not more groſs and copious in proportion to the increaſing ſwiftneſs of the animal, any more than in a watering-pot, which the ſwifter it paſſes, the leſs of the falling water it beſtows on the ſubjacent plants.

It is very plain, the ſlower the Hare moves, the ſtronger and groſſer, ceteris Rh