Note 760 — Chapter VI · HUNTING AND FOWLING.
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The huntsmen give judgment of the wild boar by the print of his foot, by his rooting; a wild swine roots deeper than our ordinary hogs, because its snout is longer, and when he comes into a corn-field, as the CalydonianCalydonian boar in Ovid, turns up one continued furrow, &c.—Wase, Illustrations, V. p. 64.