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Rh ſame path ſhe came for it muſt require the utmoſt ſkill to diſtinguiſh well the new ſcent from the old, when both are mixed, obſcured, and confounded with the ſtrong perſpirations of ſo many Dogs and Horſes. Yet this we have often ſeen performed by ready and expert Hunters. However, if the Dogs be not maſters of their buſineſs, or if the air be not in due balance, the difficulty will be the greater.

The Reader will obferve, that the remarks I have made are generally on the Hare, which, I have faid, is of all others most worthy of our ſpeculation and enquiry. By analogy the hunting the Deer or Fox will be eaſily underſtood; for, though the ſcent of theſe is generally higher, more obvious to the noſes of the Dogs, and in greater plenty whilſt the particles laſt, yet, for that very reaſon (floating in the air), they are ſooner diſſipated, and require a more vigorous, though leſs ſubtile, Huntſman, as well as ſwifter Beagles. Rh