The Shooter's Guide: Or, Complete Sportsman's Companion: Containing a ...
The Shooter's Guide: Or, Complete Sportsman's Companion: Containing a ...
Thomas Burgeland Johnson
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the evidence even of his own eyes, until, with erected crest, he has taken a few cor- dial sniffs to convince himself he is right. Hence we discover how a setter or pointer gains information of his approach to partridges, &c. ; and hence, also, we perceive how birds and beasts of prey are directed to their food at such vast distances : for these corpuscles, issuing from putrid bodies, and floating in the air^ are carried by the wind to different quarters 5 where,, striking the olfactory nerves ...of whatever animal they meet with in their way, they immediately conduct them to the spot. It matters not how much of the- effluvia is evaporated, so long as enough remains to irritate the olfactory organ ; for, whether it be bird op beast, they try the scent in all directions, till they dis- cover tliat which is stronger and stronger in propor- tion as they proceed; and this nature has taught them to know is the direct and certain road to the object of pursuit. This observation is confirmed by the in- creased eagerness to be perceived in pointers and set
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