Hounds.
MY learned Predeceſſors have been ſo full and copious in deſcriptions of theſe Animals, in directions for mending and improving the Breed, in giving advice for chuſing, pairing, kenneling, feeding, phyſicking, entering, governing, encouraging, and correcting the loud-tongued Society, that there is little left for a new Author, without repetition or impertinence. Let me only admire and adore the goodneſs of our bountiful Father, in furniſhing his children with creatures ſo innocently, as well as healthfully, to divert them, in ſupplying us with forces for ſubduing and deſtroying thoſe beaſts of rapine, which would otherwiſe multiply, to the great diſturbance, danger, and deſtruction of the reſt of the
Creation.
It is a common practice of our young Students in Philoſophy, (for uſe or for di-
