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38 EASTERN HINDOOSTAN.
Or may not they be tempted to follow armies by the daily fall
of objecls of their rapine, by the ftroke of natural deatb. ? But
whether they are expe<5tant of the flaughter ef battle, or whe-
ther they are brought from afar by the effluvia from the nu-
merous flain, nothing injures the juftly and animated defcrip-
tion of our poet, when he compares the great foe of mankind
to a vulture, expecting the mighty prey, the firft of men, and
all his race, whom he ignorantly fuppofed a deftined banquet
for his malignant jaws; no one will regret my quoting the
fine paflage, of vvhich the preceding hemiftics are the begin-
ning:
As when a flock
Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remotc
Againft the day of battle to a field
Where armies He encamp'd, come ilying, lur'd
With fcent of living carcailes defign'd
For death, the following day in bloody fight;
So fcented the grim feature, and upturn'd
His noflril vvide into the murky air
Sagacious of his quarry from fo far.
Book: x. 1. 273.
Falcons. The falcons of this country are the Chinefe. Latbam, i. 35.
tab. 11.; the Cbeala, vii. p. 33, both large fpecies, and the
Creßed Indian, WiL Om. p. 82. The fineft hawks were pro-
cured from Caflniere, and other northern parts of the empire,
who are attended by natives of the country from whence the
birds are brought. Akbar had a vaft eftablifhment for the
7 Eumifemem
Or may not they be tempted to follow armies by the daily fall
of objecls of their rapine, by the ftroke of natural deatb. ? But
whether they are expe<5tant of the flaughter ef battle, or whe-
ther they are brought from afar by the effluvia from the nu-
merous flain, nothing injures the juftly and animated defcrip-
tion of our poet, when he compares the great foe of mankind
to a vulture, expecting the mighty prey, the firft of men, and
all his race, whom he ignorantly fuppofed a deftined banquet
for his malignant jaws; no one will regret my quoting the
fine paflage, of vvhich the preceding hemiftics are the begin-
ning:
As when a flock
Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remotc
Againft the day of battle to a field
Where armies He encamp'd, come ilying, lur'd
With fcent of living carcailes defign'd
For death, the following day in bloody fight;
So fcented the grim feature, and upturn'd
His noflril vvide into the murky air
Sagacious of his quarry from fo far.
Book: x. 1. 273.
Falcons. The falcons of this country are the Chinefe. Latbam, i. 35.
tab. 11.; the Cbeala, vii. p. 33, both large fpecies, and the
Creßed Indian, WiL Om. p. 82. The fineft hawks were pro-
cured from Caflniere, and other northern parts of the empire,
who are attended by natives of the country from whence the
birds are brought. Akbar had a vaft eftablifhment for the
7 Eumifemem